Lorenzo Schioppa (10 November 1871 – 23 April 1935) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the

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. He became an archbishop in 1920 and served as Apostolic Nuncio in Hungary, the Netherlands, and Lithuania.

Biography

Lorenzo Schioppa was born on 10 November 1871 in

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, Italy. He was ordained on 18 April 1891. His early assignments in the diplomatic service took him to the nunciature in Bavaria beginning in November 1912, where he worked for

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, the future

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, during the Bolshevik takeover in Munich in 1918–1919. On 10 August 1920,

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appointed him titular archbishop of Mocissus and Apostolic Nuncio to Hungary. He received his episcopal consecration on 22 August 1920 from Cardinal

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. On 3 May 1925,

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named him Apostolic Internuncio to the Netherlands. On 10 March 1927, Pope Pius gave him the additional responsibility of the first Apostolic Internuncio to Lithuania. He was replaced in Lithuania by Riccardo Bartoloni on 30 April 1928. He was still Internuncio to the Netherlands when he died in

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on 23 April 1935 at the age of 63.

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External links

Catholic Hierarchy: Archbishop Lorenzo Schioppa
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schioppa, Lorenzo 1871 births 1935 deaths 19th-century Neapolitan people Apostolic nuncios to Hungary Apostolic nuncios to the Netherlands Apostolic nuncios to Lithuania