Lucio Morra
Lucio Morra (c. 1570–1623) was an Italian bishop and papal diplomat.
Lucio Morra | |
|---|---|
| Archdiocese | Otranto |
| See | Santa Maria Annunziata |
| In office | 1606–1623 |
| Predecessor | Marcello Acquaviva |
| Successor | Diego Lopez de Andrada |
| Other post(s) | Papal nuncio to Flanders (1617–1619) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1570 |
| Died | 1623 |
Life
Morra, from a noble family in the Kingdom of Naples, was educated at the University of Rome. On 20 November 1606 he was appointed archbishop of Otranto.[1]
On 27 June 1617 Pope Paul V appointed him papal nuncio to the Brussels court of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella, with responsibility for the missions in England and Holland as well as the Catholic Church in the Southern Netherlands. He arrived in Brussels in August 1617.[2]
In 1619 he returned to Italy for family reasons, being replaced as nuncio by Lucio Sanseverino. He died in Italy in 1623.
References
- Giampiero Brunelli, "Morra, Lucio", Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 77 (2012).
- Morra's correspondence as nuncio in Brussels has been calendared in the Analecta Vaticano-Belgica, as Correspondance des nonces Gesualdo, Morra, Sanseverino avec la Secrétairerie d'Etat pontificale, 1615-1621, edited by Lucienne Van Meerbeeck (Brussels, 1937).
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