Most Reverend

Bernardino Morra
Bishop of Aversa
ChurchCatholic Church
DioceseDiocese of Aversa
In office1598–1605
PredecessorPietro Orsini (bishop)
SuccessorFilippo Spinelli
Orders
Consecration25 October 1598
by Ottavio Bandini
Personal details
Died1605
Aversa, Italy

Bernardino Morra (c. 1549–1605) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Aversa (1598–1605).

Biography

Morra had been Auditor of Cardinal Carlo Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan (1564–1584),[1] and then his Vicar General.[2]

In 1594, Morra was Apostolic Visitor of S. Lorenzo in Lucina in Rome. In 1595, he was named secretary of the SC of Bishops and Regulars.

On 9 October 1598, Bernardino Morra was appointed Bishop of Aversa by Pope Clement VIII.[3] On 25 October 1598 he was consecrated bishop by Ottavio Bandini, Archbishop of Fermo.[3] At the time of his appointment, Morra was serving as secretary of the Congregation of Bishops and Regulars in the Roman Curia. His duties did not allow him to leave his post, and therefore he sent Father Giovanni Leonardi as his Administrator of the city and diocese of Aversa.[4]

In 1600 and 1601, with the encouragement of Clement VIII, Bishop Morra reformed the cathedral Chapter of Aversa.[5]

He served as Bishop of Aversa until his death on 17 March 1605, at the age of 56.[2]

While bishop, he served as the principal consecrator of Andrea Sorbolonghi, Bishop of Gubbio (1600).[3]

References

  1. ↑ Giovanni Pietro Giussano (1884). The Life of St. Charles Borromeo, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan. Vol. II. London and New York: Burns and Oates. p. 196.
  2. 1 2 Parafrasi istorico-morale sopra le virtù e geste del Cardinale Innico Caracciolo già vescovo d'Aversa in continuazione della di lui vita stampata in Roma ed in Napoli il 1760 (in Italian) (reprint of Rome and Naples, 1760 ed.). Lucca: per Giuseppe Rocchi. 1763. p. 99.
  3. 1 2 3 "Bishop Bernardino Morra". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
  4. ↑ Antonio Bianchini (1861). Vita del Beato Giovanni Leonardi: fondatore della Congregazione dei chierici regolari della Madre di Dio (in Italian). Rome: Tipi della S. Congregazione de propaganda fide. pp. 51–52.
  5. ↑ Analecta iuris pontificii. Series 5 (in Latin). Rome: Analecta ecclesiastica. 1861. pp. 499–504.


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