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Ernesto Cozzi
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'''Ernesto Cozzi''' (6 July 1870 – 23 March 1926) was a [[South Tyrol]]-born priest of the [[Catholic Church]] who worked as a missionary and ethnologist in Albania until, in 1920, he was given the rank of archbishop and made the representative of the [[Holy See]] to the Church in Albania.
==Biography ==
Ernesto Cozzi was born in [[Trento|Trent]], in the [[South Tyrol]], in the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]], on 6 July 1870. He became a priest of the Catholic Church and served as a military chaplain in [[Bolzano]]. From May 1901 he was a parish priest and missionary to the northern mountain tribes of Albania. Albania was then under [[Albania under the Ottoman Empire|Ottoman rule]], with Austria-Hungary providing for its Catholic population.<ref name=bio/> Cozzi publicly espoused Albanian independence.<ref name=portal/> In 1914 he was briefly an archbishop's secretary and in 1915 was sent on a diplomatic mission to Poland. With the Austro-Hungarian invasion of Albania in 1916, he became a military chaplain again. At the end of World War I, he returned to Albania and became a parish priest in [[Obot]].<ref name=bio/>
In 1919 he was appointed an [[apostolic visitor]] and traveled throughout Albania in 1920 to produce a report for the [[Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith]] (CPF) and on 12 November [[Pope Benedict XV]] named him the first [[Apostolic Delegate]] to Albania. On 16 December Pope Benedict named him a [[titular archbishop]] as well, the customary rank for papal diplomats.<ref name=bio/> Cozzi received his episcopal consecration on 27 December from Cardinal [[Willem van Rossum]], Prefrct of the CPF.
Most of his research, written in Italian, was published between 1909 and 1914 in ''Anthropos'', a Viennese scholarly journal,<ref name=bio/> the ''Revue d'ethnographie et de sociologie'', and others.<ref name=portal/> His interests included folklore and superstition, women's religious observance, blood feuds, and–his most significant contribution–popular legal norms.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> A bibliography appears on the Albania Portal.<ref name=portal/>}}
He died on 23 March 1926</ref><ref></ref>}} on board a ferry en route to Bari, Italy. He was initially buried in Bari, but his remains were exhumed, returned to Albania, and buried in [[Shkodra]] on 29 May.<ref name=bio>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref name=portal>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==Notes==
==References==
==External links==
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[[Category:1870 births]]
[[Category:1926 deaths]]
[[Category:Apostolic Nuncios to Albania]]
[[Category:Roman Catholic missionaries]]
[[Category:Roman Catholic titular archbishops]]
[[Category:Ethnologists]]
[[Category:Albanologists]]
[[Category:People from South Tyrol]]
==Biography ==
Ernesto Cozzi was born in [[Trento|Trent]], in the [[South Tyrol]], in the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]], on 6 July 1870. He became a priest of the Catholic Church and served as a military chaplain in [[Bolzano]]. From May 1901 he was a parish priest and missionary to the northern mountain tribes of Albania. Albania was then under [[Albania under the Ottoman Empire|Ottoman rule]], with Austria-Hungary providing for its Catholic population.<ref name=bio/> Cozzi publicly espoused Albanian independence.<ref name=portal/> In 1914 he was briefly an archbishop's secretary and in 1915 was sent on a diplomatic mission to Poland. With the Austro-Hungarian invasion of Albania in 1916, he became a military chaplain again. At the end of World War I, he returned to Albania and became a parish priest in [[Obot]].<ref name=bio/>
In 1919 he was appointed an [[apostolic visitor]] and traveled throughout Albania in 1920 to produce a report for the [[Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith]] (CPF) and on 12 November [[Pope Benedict XV]] named him the first [[Apostolic Delegate]] to Albania. On 16 December Pope Benedict named him a [[titular archbishop]] as well, the customary rank for papal diplomats.<ref name=bio/> Cozzi received his episcopal consecration on 27 December from Cardinal [[Willem van Rossum]], Prefrct of the CPF.
Most of his research, written in Italian, was published between 1909 and 1914 in ''Anthropos'', a Viennese scholarly journal,<ref name=bio/> the ''Revue d'ethnographie et de sociologie'', and others.<ref name=portal/> His interests included folklore and superstition, women's religious observance, blood feuds, and–his most significant contribution–popular legal norms.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> A bibliography appears on the Albania Portal.<ref name=portal/>}}
He died on 23 March 1926</ref><ref></ref>}} on board a ferry en route to Bari, Italy. He was initially buried in Bari, but his remains were exhumed, returned to Albania, and buried in [[Shkodra]] on 29 May.<ref name=bio>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref name=portal>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==Notes==
==References==
==External links==
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[[Category:1870 births]]
[[Category:1926 deaths]]
[[Category:Apostolic Nuncios to Albania]]
[[Category:Roman Catholic missionaries]]
[[Category:Roman Catholic titular archbishops]]
[[Category:Ethnologists]]
[[Category:Albanologists]]
[[Category:People from South Tyrol]]
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