arbereshe if they are catholic yes but most of them are not so they cant they usually makes the greek-byzantine rite
but if they are catholic yes they are totally italians for centuries its like to to make a man coz it has spanish ancestors in 1400
They are Catholic, they're Eastern Byzantine-rite Catholic and not Roman Catholic, but they belong to the Church.
Byzantine/Greek rite Catholics are ex-Orthodox people who accepted the authority of the Pope in Rome but preserved some of the old Orthodox liturgy.
