{"slug": "pope-pius-xii", "label": "Pope Pius XII", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_XII", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2604", "qid": "Q2604", "description": "pope of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958", "entries": 9, "years": 7, "span": [1917, 1958], "span_label": ["1917 CE", "1958 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 8}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "pope-pius-xi", "label": "Pope Pius XI", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "vatican-city", "label": "Vatican City", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "god", "label": "God", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-catholicism", "label": "Roman Catholicism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "nazism", "label": "Nazism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "archbishop", "label": "Archbishop", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pope-john-xxiii", "label": "Pope John XXIII", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1917, "year_label": "1917 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 13", "text": "May 13 – Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII, is consecrated Archbishop by Pope Benedict XV.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373519608#May", "title": "1917", "revid": 1373519608, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1933, "year_label": "1933 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 20", "text": "July 20 – Reichskonkordat: Vatican state secretary Eugenio Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII) signs an accord with Germany.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371108771#July", "title": "1933", "revid": 1371108771, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1937, "year_label": "1937 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 10", "text": "March 10 (dated March 14 (Passion Sunday)) – The encyclical Mit brennender Sorge (\"With burning concern\") of Pope Pius XI is published in Germany in the German language. Largely the work of Cardinals von Faulhaber and Pacelli, it condemns breaches of the 1933 Reichskonkordat agreement signed between the Nazi government and the Catholic Church, and criticises Nazism's views on race and other matters incompatible with Catholicism.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371759714#March", "title": "1937", "revid": 1371759714, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1939, "year_label": "1939 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 2", "text": "March 2 – Pope Pius XII (Cardinal Pacelli) succeeds Pope Pius XI to become the 260th pope, holding office until 1958.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372426050#March", "title": "1939", "revid": 1372426050, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1943, "year_label": "1943 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "September 30", "text": "September 30 – Pope Pius XII issues the encyclical Divino afflante Spiritu calling for Catholic scholars to produce new Bible translations based on the source languages.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373526844#September", "title": "1943", "revid": 1373526844, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1950, "year_label": "1950 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "August 12", "text": "August 12 – In his encyclical Humani generis, Pope Pius XII requires Catholic theologians to defer to the teachings of the Church as a whole but declares evolution to be a serious hypothesis that does not contradict essential Catholic views.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371638577#August", "title": "1950", "revid": 1371638577, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1950, "year_label": "1950 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "November 1", "text": "November 1 – Pope Pius XII witnesses the \"Miracle of the Sun\" at the Vatican and defines a new dogma of Roman Catholicism, the Munificentissimus Deus, which says that God took Mary's body into Heaven after her death (the \"Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary\").", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371638577#November", "title": "1950", "revid": 1371638577, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1958, "year_label": "1958 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 9", "text": "October 9 – Pope Pius XII (b. 1876)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371827125#October", "title": "1958", "revid": 1371827125, "section": "Deaths › October"}}, {"year": 1958, "year_label": "1958 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "October 28", "text": "October 28 – Pope John XXIII succeeds Pope Pius XII, as the 261st pope.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371827125#October", "title": "1958", "revid": 1371827125, "section": "Events › October"}}]}