Category:Cardinals created by Pope Pius XII

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In his Christmas Message 1945, His Holiness Pope Pius XII announced his intention, to make the College of Cardinals a living picture of the univerality of the Church. Included in this subcategory are cardinals created by Pope Pius XII in the consistories of February 18, 1946, and, January 12, 1953

Pope Pius XII created 32 cardinals in the consistory of February 18, 1946. The College of Cardinals thus reached its legal limit of 70 cardinals.

Grégoire-Pierre Agagianian , Manuel Arteaga y Betancourt, Giuseppe Bruno, Antonio Caggiano, Jaime de Barros Câmara, José María Caro, Enrique Pla y Deniel, Josef Frings, Clemens August Graf von Galen, Juan Guevara, Norman Thomas Gilroy, John J. Glennon, Teódosio de Gouveia, Bernard Griffin, Johannes de Jong, Pierre Petit de Julleville, Benedetto Aloisi Masella, James Charles McGuigan, Clemente Micara, József Mindszenty, Edward Mooney, Carlos Carmelo Vasconcellos Motta, Agustín Parrado y García, Konrad von Preysing, Clément-Emile Roques, Ernesto Ruffini, Jules-Géraud Saliège, Adam Stefan Sapieha, Francis Spellman, Samuel Stritch, Thomas Tien Ken-sin.

Twenty-four cardinals were created by Pope Pius XII in the consistory of January 12, 1953:

Benjamín de Arriba y Castro, Gaetano Cicognani, Pietro Ciriaci, Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini, John D'Alton, Francesco Borgongini Duca, Maurice Feltin, Valerian Gracias, Georges-François-Xavier-Marie Grente Paul-Émile Léger, Giacomo Lercaro, Crisanto Luque Sánchez, Marcello Mimmi, James McIntyre (cardinal) Manuel Arce y Ochotorena Alfredo Ottaviani, Fernando Quiroga y Palacios, Guiseppe Roncalli,Augusto da Silva, Giuseppe Siri, Aloysius Stepinac, Carlos María Cardinal de la Torre, Valerio Valeri,Stefan Wyszyński