Pius II(born Enea Silvio de Piccolomini) 1405-64; pope (1458-64)
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Pius VII(born Luigi Barnaba Chiaramonti) 1742-1823; pope (1800-23)
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Pius IX(born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti) 1792-1878; pope (1846-78)
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Saint Pius X(born Giuseppe Sarto) (1835-1914); pope (1903-14): his day is Aug. 21
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Pius XI(born Achille Ratti) 1857-1939; pope (1922-39)
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Pius XII(born Eugenio Pacelli) 1876-1958; pope (1939-58)
All related terms of 'Pius'
Pius V
Saint. original name Michele Ghislieri. 1504–72, Italian ecclesiastic ; pope (1566–72). He attempted to enforce the reforms decreed by the Council of Trent , excommunicated Elizabeth I of England (1570), and organized the alliance that defeated the Turks at Lepanto (1571). Feast day: 30 April
Pius X
Saint. original name Giuseppe Sarto . 1835–1914, Italian ecclesiastic ; pope (1903–14). He condemned Modernism (1907) and initiated a new codification of canon law. Feast day: Aug 21
Pius II
pen name Aeneas Silvius, original name Enea Silvio de' Piccolomini. 1405–64, Italian ecclesiastic , humanist, poet, and historian ; pope (1458–64)
Pius IV
original name Giovanni Angelo de' Medici . 1499–1565, pope (1559–65). He reconvened the Council of Trent (1562), confirming its final decrees
Pius IX
original name Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti. 1792–1878, Italian ecclesiastic ; pope (1846–78). He refused to recognize the incorporation of Rome and the Papal States in the kingdom of Italy, confining himself to the Vatican after 1870. He decreed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception (1854) and convened the Vatican Council, which laid down the doctrine of papal infallibility (1870)
Pius VI
original name Giovanni Angelico Braschi . 1717–99, Italian ecclesiastic ; pope (1775–99). He opposed French attempts to limit papal authority and denounced (1791) the French Revolution : he died a prisoner of the French in the Revolutionary Wars
Pius XI
original name Achille Ratti. 1857–1939, Italian ecclesiastic ; pope (1922–39). He signed the Lateran Treaty (1929), by which the Vatican City was recognized as an independent state. His encyclicals condemned Nazism and Communism
Pius VII
original name Luigi Barnaba Chiaramonti. 1740–1823, Italian ecclesiastic ; pope (1800–23). He concluded a concordat with Napoleon (1801) and consecrated him as emperor of France (1804), but resisted his annexation of the Papal States (1809)
Pius XII
original name Eugenio Pacelli. 1876–1958, Italian ecclesiastic ; pope (1939–58): his attitude towards Nazi German anti-Semitism has been a matter of controversy
Antoninus Pius
86–161 ad , emperor of Rome (138–161); adopted son and successor of Hadrian