Pope Pius XII

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Birth Name: Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli

Born: 2 March 1876 Died: 9 October 1958

Country of origin: Italy

Relationship Status: Single

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Description: Pope Pius XII reigned from 2 March 1939 to his death in 1958. Before his election to the papacy, Pacelli served as secretary of the Department of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, papal nuncio to Germany (1917–1929), and Cardinal Secretary of State, in which capacity he worked to conclude treaties with European and Latin American nations, most notably the Reichskonkordat with Nazi Germany, with which most historians believe the Vatican sought to protect the Church in Germany while Adolf Hitler sought the destruction of 'political Catholicism'. A pre-war critic of Nazism, Pius XII lobbied world leaders to avoid war and, as ... (more)

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