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According to Urbano Cerri, Pope Innocent was a native of Albania.
This attribution appears to be based on a misused source. The cited Cerri page is about the country of Albania, while standard references identify Innocent I's birthplace as Albano.
Full reasoning
The article says Urbano Cerri stated that Innocent I was from Albania, but the cited Cerri source does not support that reading.
- The cited 1715 text is Cerri's An account of the state of the Roman-Catholick religion throughout the world. In the digitized full text, the relevant passage is a geographic section headed "Albania" and discusses the Balkan country: "Albania was formerly a Catholick Kingdom ... fell under the Dominion of the Turks". That is not a statement about Pope Innocent I's birthplace.
- By contrast, the Holy See's own biographical page for Innocent I lists his Birth: Albano.
So this sentence appears to confuse Albano (the town traditionally given as Innocent's birthplace) with Albania (the country), and incorrectly attributes that claim to Cerri.
2 sources
- Full text of "An account of the state of the Roman-Catholick religion throughout the world ..."
The cited text contains a section headed "Albania": "Albania was formerly a Catholick Kingdom; ... it fell under the Dominion of the Turks" — a discussion of the country Albania, not Pope Innocent I's birthplace.
- Innocent I | The Holy See
The Holy See biography for Innocent I states: "Birth Albano" and gives his pontificate as 22.XII.401 to 12.III.417.