Lucio Morra

Lucio Morra
Lucio Morra
Archdiocese	Otranto
See	Santa Maria Annunziata
In office	1606–1623
Predecessor	Marcello Acquaviva
Successor	Diego Lopez de Andrada
Other posts	Papal nuncio to Flanders (1617–1619)
Personal details
Born	c. 1570
Died	1623

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

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).

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Marcello Acquaviva	Archbishop of Otranto 1606–1623	Succeeded by Diego Lopez de Andrada
Preceded by Ascanio Gesualdo	Papal nuncio to Flanders 1617–1619	Succeeded by Lucio Sanseverino

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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).