Pope Pius XII

Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli

Eugenio Pacelli served the Holy See largely as a diplomat and his role within the Church was largely centred on diplomatic negotiation with Germany. He was the Papal Nuncio in Bavaria from 1917 and from June 1920 also Nuncio to the German Weimar Republic.

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Holy See - 1920 - Weimar Republic

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Early in this Nunciate (in a private letter (dated November 14, 1923), to Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Cardinal Gasparri ) Pacelli denounced the National Socialist movement as an anti-Catholic and anti-Hebrew threat. He also remarked that Michael von Faulhaber, Bishop of Munich had condemned acts of persecution against Bavaria's Jews.

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November 14 - 1923 - Pietro Cardinal Gasparri - National Socialist movement - Michael von Faulhaber - Munich

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During the 1920's and 1930s Cardinal Pacelli succeeded in negotiating concordats with Bavaria, Prussia and Baden, but failed in regard to Germany.

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1920 - 1930s - Concordat - Bavaria - Prussia - Baden - Germany

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