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| 1903 |
| | | Giuseppe Sarto is elected pope and takes the name Pius X | |
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| 1914 |
| | | Giacomo della Chiesa is elected pope and takes the name Benedict XV | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Ambrogio Ratti is elected pope and takes the name Pius XI | |
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| 1937 |
| | | Pope Pius XI issues an encyclical, Mit Brennender Sorge, condemning the Nazi ideology of racism | |
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| 1939 |
| | | Eugenio Pacelli is elected pope and takes the name Pius XII | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Angelo Roncalli is elected pope and takes the name John XXIII | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Pope John XXIII summons a second Vatican Council | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Pope John XXIII dies, only a few month's after the start of the great Vatican council that he has summoned | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Italian cardinal Giovanni Montini is elected pope and takes the name Paul VI | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras meet in Jerusalem, in the first such meeting since 1438 | |
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