Editing Lists of Albanians (section)

=== Priests ===
* [[Demetrio Franco|Dhimitër Frëngu]] (1443 – 1525), friar and scholar of a noble family, treasurer and councilor of Giorgio Castriota, in 1480 wrote the first biography, in Latin, on the life of Skanderbeg, from which all later writers drew.
* Father [[Marin Barleti]] (1450 – 1513), Catholic ecclesiastic and writer, author of the life of Skanderbeg.
* [[Gjon Buzuku]] (1499 – 1577), [[bishop]] Catholic, author of the oldest known document in Albanian: a translation of the Roman Missal, "[[Meshari]]" ([[1555]]).
* [[Pjetër Budi]] (1565 – 1622), Catholic priest and writer, published three books in Albanian and I leave several poems in his native language.
* Papa [[Luca Matranga]] (1567 – 1619), priest and scholar, author of the first literary expression ''arbëresh'' of the Albanians in diaspora.
* [[Frang Bardhi]] (1606 – 1644), Catholic bishop, lexicographer, folklorist and ethnographer, author of the first dictionary of the Albanian language known so far.
* [[Pjetër Bogdani]] (1630 – 1689), Catholic bishop and writer, author of the first Albanian work in prose.
* Papa [[Nikollë Filja]] (1691 – 1769), priest and writer.
* Nicoleta Kenini (2005-), writer and priest
* Mons. [[Giuseppe Crispi]] (1781 – 1859), one of the major figures of the Arbëresh community of Sicily of that era, wrote a number of works on the Albanian language.
* Papa [[Francesco Antonio Santori]] (1819 – 1894), writer, poet and playwright.
* [[Nikoll Kaçorri]] (1862 – 1917), Catholic religious, politician and patriot, deputy prime minister with Ismail Kemal, in the first Albanian government (1912–1913).
* [[Gjergj Fishta]] (1871 – 1940), Franciscan friar, poet, politician and translator.
* Mons. [[Theofan Stilian Noli]] (1882 – 1965), bishop and intellectual, writer, scholar, diplomat, politician, historian, orator, founder of the Orthodox Church of Albania.
* Papa [[Marco La Piana]] (1883 – 1958), priest and scholar, gave his contribute through his studies on Albanian language.
* [[Anton Harapi]] (1888 – 1946), Franciscan friar, teacher, writer and politician.
* [[Giuseppe Valentini (albanologist)|Zef Valentini]] (1900 – 1979), Italian Jesuit, albanologist, byzantinist and historian, naturalized Albanian.
* [[Cyril of Bulgaria]] (1901 – 1971), the first Patriarch of the Bulgarian Patriarchate, born of an Albanian family.
* Father [[Zef Pllumi]] (1924 – 2007), Franciscan priest and writer, author of the memoirs of Christian religious persecution in Albania.
* Mons. [[Ercole Lupinacci]] (1933 – 2016), Bishop of Italo-Albanian Catholic Eparchies of Piana degli Albanesi and Lungro.
* Mons. [[Sotir Ferrara]] (1937 – 2017), the Bishop of the [[Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi]], a diocese of the [[Italo-Albanian Catholic Church]] in Sicily, Italy.
* Papa [[Eleuterio Francesco Fortino]] (1938 – 2010), priest of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church, Archimandrite in the [[Eparchy of Lungro]] in Calabria, served as the Under Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and albanolog.
* Arch. [[Rrok Kola Mirdita]] (1939 – 2015), Catholic archbishop.
* Mons. [[Angelo Massafra]] (born 1949), metropolitan archbishop of Scutari-Pult and president of the Albanian Episcopal Conference.
* Mons. [[Donato Oliverio]] (born 1956), Bishop of the Eparchy of Lungro.
* [[Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani]], Islamic scholar (specialising in the field of [[Hadith studies|Hadith sciences]]) and [[Islamic revival|Muslim revivalist]] in the 20th century. He is well known for his anti-extremist leanings all over the Muslim world.