Martin Lucas

Martin Lucas
Martin Lucas
	Apostolic Delegate Emeritus to Scandinavia
See	Titular Archbishop of Adulis
Orders
Ordination	26 October 1924
Consecration	29 October 1945; by Pietro Fumasoni Biondi
Personal details
Born	16 October 1894; Haarlem, Netherlands
Died	3 March 1969 (aged 74)

Martin Lucas (16 October 1894 – 3 March 1969) was a Catholic archbishop and diplomat of the Holy See.

Biography

Lucas was born in Haarlem, Netherlands, on 16 October 1894. He was ordained a priest of the Society of the Divine Word on 26 October 1924. He was appointed Apostolic Delegate to South Africa and Titular Archbishop of Adulis on 14 September 1945. On 29 October 1945 he was ordained a bishop by Cardinal Pietro Fumasoni Biondi, while the co-consecrators were Archbishop Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini and Bishop Johannes Hendrik Olav Smit.

On 3 December 1952 he was appointed to the Apostolic Internuncioto India. From 1956 to 1959, he served as an official of the Secretariat of State in Rome. On 16 April 1959 he was named the first Apostolic Delegate to Scandinavia, with responsibility for Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. He resigned in October 1961.

Lucas attended the Second Vatican Council.

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Leo Peter Kierkels, CP	Apostolic Nuncio to India (3 December 1952 – 29 June 1952	Succeeded by James Knox

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External links

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