Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: A mụrụ Luigi Centoz na 2 Eprel 1883 na Saint-Pierre, Aosta Valley, Italy. A họpụtara ya ụkọchukwu na 9 June 1906. N'afọ 1909, ọ sonyeere ndị ọrụ nke Holy See's Secretariat of State, ebe ọ rụrụ ọrụ ozugbo maka Cardinal Secretary of State Rafael Merry del Val. Na 6 Jenụwarị 1921, e kenyere ya ọrụ na ndị nnọchi anya Germany na Bavaria (ma site na 1925 gaa Prussia), na-arụ ọrụ maka Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli, onye mechara bụrụ Pope Pius XII. O sonyere na
conclave nke February 1922, dị ka onye enyemaka nke Cardinal Merry del Val.