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

Life

Morra, from a noble family in the

Kingdom of Naples The Kingdom of Naples ( la, Regnum Neapolitanum; it, Regno di Napoli; nap, Regno 'e Napule), also known as the Kingdom of Sicily, was a state that ruled the part of the Italian Peninsula south of the Papal States between 1282 and 1816. It was ...

, was educated at the University of Rome. On 20 November 1606 he was appointed

archbishop of Otranto The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Otranto (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Hydruntina'') is a see of the Catholic Church in Italy. The seat of the diocese is at Otranto Cathedral in the city of Otranto, Apulia. It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Lec ...

. On 27 June 1617

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appointed him

papal nuncio An apostolic nuncio ( la, nuntius apostolicus; also known as a papal nuncio or simply as a nuncio) is an ecclesiastical diplomat, serving as an envoy or a permanent diplomatic representative of the Holy See to a state or to an international org ...

to the Brussels court of the Archdukes

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and

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, with responsibility for the missions in England and Holland as well as the Catholic Church in the

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. He arrived in Brussels in August 1617.Morra's correspondence as nuncio in Brussels has been calendared in the

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, as ''Correspondance des nonces Gesualdo, Morra, Sanseverino avec la Secrétairerie d'Etat pontificale, 1615-1621'', edited by Lucienne Van Meerbeeck (Brussels, 1937). In 1619 he returned to Italy for family reasons, being replaced as nuncio by

Lucio Sanseverino Lucio Sanseverino (1565–1623) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Life Sanseverino was born in Naples in 1565, the son of Giovanni Giacomo Sanseverino, count of Saponara, and Cornelia Pignatelli, marchioness of Cerchiaro. After ...

. He died in Italy in 1623.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Morra, Lucio 1570s births 1623 deaths Apostolic Nuncios to Flanders 17th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Kingdom of Naples