Pius XII.

Quality:

Pius XII - pope of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958. This person is the 2399^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Pius XII.” in German Wikipedia has 97.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 182 references and 26 sections.

This article has the best quality in Greek Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 8647^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 1457^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8427^th most popular in all topics.

The 1920^th most popular in AI.

The 2399^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 9165^th most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5362^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2123^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Pius XII.” was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 44 authors in all languages (2123^rd place).

Since the creation of article “Pius XII.”, its content was written by 546 registered users of German Wikipedia (1457^th place) and edited by 5095 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1920^th place).

Pius XII is on the 2399^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 3389 times in German Wikipedia (2750^th place) and cited 40335 times in all languages (4072^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #221 in April 2005
• Global: #78 in April 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #166 in April 2025
• Global: #76 in April 2025

There are 51 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Greek (el) Πάπας Πίος ΙΒ΄		100
2	Catalan (ca) Pius XII		100
3	Russian (ru) Пий XII		99.6642
4	German (de) Pius XII.		97.1429
5	Dutch (nl) Paus Pius XII		97.0844
6	English (en) Pope Pius XII		96.6898
7	Indonesian (id) Paus Pius XII		95.8567
8	French (fr) Pie XII		92.9076
9	Italian (it) Papa Pio XII		90.5183
10	Spanish (es) Pío XII		87.7819

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pope Pius XII		10 410 601
2	Spanish (es) Pío XII		3 756 138
3	Italian (it) Papa Pio XII		3 581 522
4	German (de) Pius XII.		2 428 450
5	French (fr) Pie XII		1 939 481
6	Polish (pl) Pius XII		1 688 476
7	Portuguese (pt) Papa Pio XII		1 579 951
8	Russian (ru) Пий XII		966 268
9	Dutch (nl) Paus Pius XII		476 265
10	Japanese (ja) ピウス12世 (ローマ教皇)		465 529

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pope Pius XII		69 518
2	Spanish (es) Pío XII		21 432
3	Italian (it) Papa Pio XII		19 535
4	Portuguese (pt) Papa Pio XII		10 743
5	French (fr) Pie XII		9 323
6	German (de) Pius XII.		8 536
7	Polish (pl) Pius XII		5 999
8	Russian (ru) Пий XII		5 474
9	Chinese (zh) 庇護十二世		2 463
10	Japanese (ja) ピウス12世 (ローマ教皇)		2 440

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pope Pius XII		1 106
2	German (de) Pius XII.		546
3	French (fr) Pie XII		497
4	Italian (it) Papa Pio XII		495
5	Spanish (es) Pío XII		273
6	Polish (pl) Pius XII		250
7	Dutch (nl) Paus Pius XII		200
8	Portuguese (pt) Papa Pio XII		155
9	Russian (ru) Пий XII		141
10	Hebrew (he) פיוס השנים עשר		111

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pope Pius XII		8
2	French (fr) Pie XII		5
3	Catalan (ca) Pius XII		3
4	Spanish (es) Pío XII		3
5	Italian (it) Papa Pio XII		3
6	Polish (pl) Pius XII		3
7	Portuguese (pt) Papa Pio XII		3
8	Greek (el) Πάπας Πίος ΙΒ΄		2
9	Estonian (et) Pius XII		2
10	Swedish (sv) Pius XII		2

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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