Hierarchia Catholica medii et recentioris aevi, sive, Summorum Pontificum, S. R. E. Cardinalium, Ecclesiarum Antistitum series, e documentis tabularii praesertim Vaticani collecta, digesta, edita, Volume IX: A Pontificatu Pii PP.X (1903) usque ad Pontificatum Benedicti PP.XV (1922)

Hierarchia Catholica medii et recentioris aevi, sive, Summorum Pontificum, S. R. E. Cardinalium, Ecclesiarum Antistitum series, e documentis tabularii praesertim Vaticani collecta, digesta, edita, Volume IX: A Pontificatu Pii PP.X (1903) usque ad Pontificatum Benedicti PP.XV (1922). Edited by Zenon Pieta, O.F.M.Conv. (Padua: Edizioni Messaggero Padova. 2002. Pp. xvi, 446.)

Although this tome, heavy in weight and large in format, is a very important and useful reference tool, it cannot be reviewed critically by anyone who does not have access to the Vatican Archives and the other unpublished sources on which it is based. Therefore, a merely descriptive notice must suffice. This ninth volume in the series initiated by Father Konrad Eubel in 1898 has appeared twenty-four years after the eighth and is the work of Polish Conventual Franciscans. It contains, besides the prelates named in the title, the archbishops and bishops...