Lorenzo Schioppa was born on 10 November 1871 in
Naples, 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
Eugenio Pacelli, the future
Pope Pius XII, during the
Bolshevik takeover in Munich in 1918–1919. On 10 August 1920,
Pope Benedict XV appointed him titular archbishop of
Mocissus and
Apostolic Nuncio to Hungary. He received his episcopal consecration on 22 August 1920 from Cardinal
Andreas Frühwirth. On 3 May 1925,
Pope Pius XI 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
The Hague on 23 April 1935 at the age of 63. ==References ==