On Thursday 20 February 2020, at 11.30, at the Holy See Press Office, Via della Conciliazione 54, there will be a “Meeting Point” for journalists to present the opening of the Archives of the Holy See for the papacy of Pius XII (1939-1958), to take place on Monday 2 March 2020.

The following will be available to speak to the press:

- His Eminence Cardinal José Tolentino Calaça de Mendonça, archivist and librarian of the Holy Roman Church (Portuguese, Italian);

- Bishop Sergio Pagano, B., prefect of the Vatican Apostolic Archive (Italian);

- Professor Paolo Vian, deputy prefect of the Vatican Apostolic Archive (Italian);

- Dr. Luca Carboni, of the Vatican Apostolic Archive (Italian);

- Dr. Giovanni Coco, of the Vatican Apostolic Archive (Italian);

- Dr. Alejandro M. Dieguez, of the Vatican Apostolic Archive (Italian, Spanish);

- Msgr. Alejandro Cifres Giménez, of the Archive of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (Italian, Spanish);

- Msgr. Luis Manuel Cuña Ramos, of the Historic Archive of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (Italian, Spanish);

- Dr. Johan Ickx, of the Historic Archive of the Section for Relations with States of the Secretariat of State (Italian, English, French, German).