Nikollë Kaçorri

Dom Nikollë Kaçorri (1862–1917), was a prominent figure of the National Renaissance of Albania. A signatory of Albanian Declaration of Independence, Dom Kaçorri served as Vice Prime minister of the Provisional Government of Albania, after the independence.

Life

He was born in 1862 in Lurë, (now in Dibër municipality) and became a Catholic priest in 1878. In 1902 he became the Archbishop of Durrës, where he served until the Albanian Declaration of Independence. He was also a participant in the Congress of Monastir, which created the Albanian alphabet.

Dom Nikollë Kaçorri died in 1917 in Vienna, at the age of 55, from cancer.