List of the cardinal creations of Pius XII.

Pius XII.

It is probably due to the turmoil of the Second World War that Pope Pius XII. (1939–1958) appointed 56 cardinals in only two consistories during his pontificate . In his creations, he laid the foundation for the internationalization of the College of Cardinals .

February 18, 1946

Joseph Frings

•  Soviet Union : Grégoire-Pierre Agagianian , Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenian Catholic Church
•  United States : John Joseph Glennon , Archbishop of St. Louis
•  Italy : Benedetto Aloisi Masella , Apostolic Nuncio in Brazil
•  Italy : Clemente Micara , Apostolic Nuncio in Belgium and Luxembourg
•  Poland : Adam Stefan Sapieha , Archbishop of Krakow
•  United States : Edward Aloysius Mooney , Archbishop of Detroit
•  France : Jules Saliège , Archbishop of Toulouse
•  Canada : James Charles McGuigan , Archbishop of Toronto
•  United States : Samuel Stritch , Archbishop of Chicago
•  Spain : Agustín Parrado y García , Archbishop of Granada
•  France : Clément-Émile Roques , Archbishop of Rennes
•  Netherlands : Johannes de Jong , Archbishop of Utrecht
•  France : Pierre Petit de Julleville , Archbishop of Rouen
•  Australia : Norman Thomas Gilroy , Archbishop of Sydney
•  United States : Francis Spellman , Archbishop of New York
•  Chile : José María Caro Rodríguez , Archbishop of Santiago de Chile
•  Portugal : Teodósio Clemente de Gouveia , Archbishop of Maputo
•  Brazil : Jaime de Barros Câmara , Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
•  Spain : Enrique Pla y Deniel , Archbishop of Toledo
•  Cuba : Manuel Arteaga y Betancourt , Archbishop of Havana
•  Germany : Joseph Frings , Archbishop of Cologne
•  Peru : Juan Gualberto Guevara , Archbishop of Lima
•  United Kingdom : Bernard William Griffin , Archbishop of Westminster
•  Spain : Manuel Arce y Ochotorena , Archbishop of Tarragona
•  Hungary : József Mindszenty , Archbishop of Esztergom
•  Italy : Ernesto Ruffini , Bishop of Palermo
•  Germany : Konrad Graf von Preysing-Lichtenegg-Moos , Bishop of Berlin
•  Germany : Clemens August Graf von Galen , Bishop of Munster
•  Argentina : Antonio Caggiano , Archbishop of Rosario
•  Brazil : Carlos Carmelo de Vasconcelos Motta , Archbishop of Aparecida
•  China : Thomas Tien Ken-sin SVD , Archbishop of Beijing
•  Italy : Giuseppe Bruno , Curia Bishop

January 12, 1953

Angelo Roncalli, later Pope John XXIII.

•  Italy : Celso Costantini , Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
•  Brazil : Augusto Álvaro da Silva , Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia
•  Italy : Gaetano Cicognani , Prefect of the Congregation for Rites
•  Italy : Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (later Pope John XXIII), Apostolic Nuncio in France , with the creation of a cardinal and then an appointment as the Patriarch of Venice
•  Italy : Valerio Valeri , Prefect of the Congregation for Consecrated Life
•  Italy : Pietro Ciriaci , Apostolic Nuncio in Portugal
•  Italy : Francesco Borgongini Duca , Apostolic Nuncio in Italy
•  France : Maurice Feltin , Archbishop of Paris
•  Italy : Marcello Mimmi , Archbishop of Naples
•  Ecuador : Carlos María de la Torre , Archbishop of Quito
•  Yugoslavia : Alojzije Stepinac , Archbishop of Zagreb
•  France : Georges Grente , Bishop of Le Mans
•  Italy : Giuseppe Siri , Archbishop of Genoa
•  Ireland : John D'Alton , Archbishop of Armagh
•  United States : James Francis McIntyre , Archbishop of Los Angeles
•  Italy : Giacomo Lercaro , Archbishop of Bologna
•  Poland : Stefan Wyszyński , Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw
•  Spain : Benjamin de Arriba y Castro , Archbishop of Tarragona
•  Spain : Fernando Quiroga y Palacios , Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela
•  Canada : Paul-Émile Léger PSS , Archbishop of Montreal
•  Colombia : Crisanto Luque Sánchez , Archbishop of Bogotá
•  India : Valerian Gracias , Archbishop of Bombay
•  Federal Republic of Germany : Joseph Wendel , Archbishop of Munich and Freising
•  Italy : Alfredo Ottaviani , Assessor at the Holy Office

Furthermore, the appointment of the Patriarch of Venice , Carlo Agostini , was planned, but Agostini died two weeks before the consistory.

Web links

• Consistories for the creation of Cardinals - Pius XII (1939-1958). In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed November 29, 2016.