Pope Pius XI
1857 CE–1939 CE · Modern · Milan
Born Achille Ratti, a scholar and former Vatican librarian, Pius XI guided the Church through the turbulent interwar years. In 1929 he signed the Lateran Treaty with Mussolini's Italy, resolving the Roman Question and creating the sovereign Vatican City State. He concluded concordats with several states, including Germany in 1933, but later sharply criticized totalitarianism: his 1937 encyclicals condemned Nazi racial ideology (Mit brennender Sorge) and atheistic communism (Divini Redemptoris). He promoted Catholic Action, the missions, and devotion to Christ the King. His pontificate balanced pragmatic diplomacy with growing moral resistance to fascist and Nazi regimes.
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- Pope Bl. Pius IX· 1792 CE–1878 CE
- John Henry Newman· 1801 CE–1890 CE
- Pope Leo XIII· 1810 CE–1903 CE
- Pope St. Pius X· 1835 CE–1914 CE
- Vladimir Solovyov· 1853 CE–1900 CE
- Pope Benedict XV· 1854 CE–1922 CE
- Sergei Bulgakov· 1871 CE–1944 CE
- Thérèse of Lisieux· 1873 CE–1897 CE
- Pope Pius XII· 1876 CE–1958 CE
- Pope St. John XXIII· 1881 CE–1963 CE
- Pavel Florensky· 1882 CE–1937 CE
- Paul Tillich· 1886 CE–1965 CE
- Karl Barth· 1886 CE–1968 CE
- Georges Florovsky· 1893 CE–1979 CE
- Henri de Lubac· 1896 CE–1991 CE
- C. S. Lewis· 1898 CE–1963 CE
- Karl Rahner· 1904 CE–1984 CE
- Yves Congar· 1904 CE–1995 CE
- Hans Urs von Balthasar· 1905 CE–1988 CE
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer· 1906 CE–1945 CE
- Pope John Paul I· 1912 CE–1978 CE
- Thomas Merton· 1915 CE–1968 CE
- Pope St. John Paul II· 1920 CE–2005 CE
- Alexander Schmemann· 1921 CE–1983 CE
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- Friedrich Ebert· 1871 CE–1925 CE
- Vladimir Lenin· 1870 CE–1924 CE
- Wilhelm II· 1859 CE–1941 CE
- George V· 1865 CE–1936 CE
- Sun Yat-sen· 1866 CE–1925 CE
- Wovoka (Jack Wilson)· 1856 CE–1932 CE
- Warren G. Harding· 1865 CE–1923 CE
- William Howard Taft· 1857 CE–1930 CE
- Mehmed VI· 1861 CE–1926 CE
- Calvin Coolidge· 1872 CE–1933 CE
- Emperor Taisho· 1879 CE–1926 CE
- Nicholas II· 1868 CE–1918 CE
- Philippe Petain· 1856 CE–1951 CE
- Woodrow Wilson· 1856 CE–1924 CE
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