Lorenzo Schioppa

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

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

His early assignments in the diplomatic service took him to the nunciature in Bavaria beginning in November 1912,[1] where he worked for Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII, during the Bolshevik takeover in Munich in 1918–1919.

[2][3] On 10 August 1920, Pope Benedict XV appointed him titular archbishop of Mocissus and Apostolic Nuncio to Hungary.

On 10 March 1927, Pope Pius gave him the additional responsibility of the first Apostolic Internuncio to Lithuania.