Johan Ickx (born 1962) is director of the historical archive of the Section for Relations with States of the

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's Secretariat of State. He has spent his career in several departments of the

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. He has published research on a wide variety of subjects related to the

history of the Catholic Church The history of the Catholic Church is the formation, events, and historical development of the Catholic Church through time. According to the Sacred tradition, tradition of the Catholic Church, it started from the day of Pentecost at the uppe ...

from the Middle Ages to the 19th-20th centuries. Johan Ickx studied religious sciences, theology and philosophy at the

Catholic University of Leuven University of Leuven or University of Louvain (; ) may refer to: * Old University of Leuven (1425–1797) * State University of Leuven (1817–1835) * Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968) * Katholieke Universiteit Leuven or KU Leuven (1968 ...

and earned his doctorate in church history at the

Pontifical Gregorian University Pontifical Gregorian University (; also known as the Gregorian or Gregoriana), is a private university, private pontifical university in Rome, Italy. The Gregorian originated as a part of the Roman College, founded in 1551 by Ignatius of Loyo ...

. He worked as academic assistant at the journal ''Archivum Historiae Pontificiae'', as an official of the

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, and as archivist of the Tribunal of the

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. On 26 June 2008, while working at the Penitentiary, he was appointed to a five-year term as a consultor to the

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. His appointment was renewed on 19 December 2013. He is the author of a study of the

's assessment of Germany's tactics in occupied Belgium during the

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, ''La Guerre et le Vatican'' (2018). He argued that

Eugenio Pacelli Pope Pius XII (; born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli; 2 March 18769 October 1958) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2 March 1939 until his death on 9 October 1958. He is the most recent p ...

, the future Pope Pius XII who was then secretary of the Department of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs played a key role in bringing the Vatican to discount German propaganda and recognize Germany was trying "to terrorize the population" of Belgium. In April 2018, he received the Romulus Prize (''14de Romulusprijs'') from the Rome Society of

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Selected writings

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ickx, Johan 1962 births Living people Pontifical Gregorian University alumni Officials of the Roman Curia