Pope Pius XII
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
(Redirected from Pius XII)
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
Pope Pius XII (2 March 1876 - 9 October 1958), was the Pope of the Catholic Church from 2 March 1939 to his death. Before his election to the papacy, he served as secretary of the Department of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, papal nuncio to Germany, 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.
[edit]
See also
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Pope Pius XII" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
