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Lucio Morra

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Lucio Morra
ArchdioceseOtranto
SeeSanta Maria Annunziata
In office1606–1623
PredecessorMarcello Acquaviva
SuccessorDiego Lopez de Andrada
Other post(s)Papal nuncio to Flanders (1617–1619)
Personal details
Bornc. 1570
Died1623

Lucio Morra (c. 1570–1623) was an Italian bishop and papal diplomat.

Life

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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

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  1. ^ Giampiero Brunelli, "Morra, Lucio", Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 77 (2012).
  2. ^ 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).
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Archbishop of Otranto
1606–1623
Succeeded by
Preceded by Papal nuncio to Flanders
1617–1619
Succeeded by