Transcript Papież Jan Paweł II

POPE JOHN PAUL II
Papież Jan Paweł II
JOHN PAUL II
 Pope John Paul II is the most
famous man of Polish. He’s sometimes
called Blessed John Paul or John Paul
the Great, born Karol Józef Wojtyła ;
18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005), reigned as
Pope of the Catholic Church from
1978 until his death in 2005. He was
the second-longest serving Pope in
history and the first non-Italian since
1523.
CURRICULUM VITAE
 Karol Józef Wojtyła was born
in the Polish town of Wadowice
and was the youngest of three
children of Karol Wojtyła and
Emilia Kaczorowska. On 13
April 1929, Wojtyła's mother
died in childbirth.
 In mid-1938, Wojtyła and his
father moved to Cracow, where
he enrolled at Jagiellonian
University. He was studying such
topics as philology and various
languages.
 In 1939, Nazi German occupation forces
closed the university after invading Poland.
Able-bodied males were required to work, so
from 1940 to 1944 Wojtyła variously worked
as a messenger for a restaurant, a manual
labourer in a limestone quarry and for the
Solvay chemical factory, to avoid deportation
to Germany.
 After his father's death, he
started thinking seriously about the
priesthood. In October 1942, while
the war continued, he knocked on
the door of the Bishop's Palace in
Cracow and asked to study for the
priesthood.
 On finishing his studies at the
seminary in Cracow, Wojtyła was
ordained as a priest 1 November
1946, by the Archbishop of
Cracow, Cardinal Sapieha. He then
studied theology in Rome, where
he earned a licentiate and later a
doctorate in sacred theology.
 He returned to Poland
in the summer of 1945
with his first pastoral
assignment in the village
of Niegowić, fifteen
miles from Crakow.
 In March 1949, Wojtyła was
transferred to the parish of Saint
Florian in Kraków. He taught
ethics at Jagiellonian University
and subsequently at the Catholic
University of Lublin. In 1954, he
earned a second doctorate, in
philosophy.
 In October 1962, Wojtyła took
part in the Second Vatican Council
(1962–1965), where he made
contributions to two of its most
historic and influential products,
the Decree on Religious Freedom
and the Pastoral Constitution on
the Church in the Modern .
 On 13 January 1964, Pope Paul VI appointed him Archbishop of
Kraków. On 26 June 1967, Paul VI announced Archbishop Karol
Wojtyła's promotion to the Sacred College of Cardinals. Wojtyła was
named Cardinal-Priest of the titulus of San Cesareo in Palatio.
 In August 1978, following the
death of Pope Paul VI, Cardinal
Wojtyła voted in the Papal
conclave which elected Pope John
Paul I, who at 65 was considered
young by papal standards. John
Paul I died after only 33 days as
Pope, triggering another conclave.
 The second conclave of 1978 started on 14 October, ten days after
the funeral. It was split between two strong candidates for the papacy:
Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, the conservative Archbishop of Genoa, and
the liberal Archbishop of Florence, Giovanni Cardinal Benelli, a close
friend of John Paul I.
 A very charismatic figure, John Paul
II was acclaimed as one of the most
influential leaders of the 20th century.
He was instrumental in ending
communism in his native Poland and
eventually all of Europe. John Paul II
significantly improved the Catholic
Church's relations with Judaism, Islam,
the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the
Anglican Communion.
 He was one of the most-travelled
world leaders in history, visiting 129
countries during his pontificate. As part
of his special emphasis on the universal
call to holiness, he beatified 1,340
people and canonised 483 saints, more
than the combined tally of his
predecessors during the preceding five
centuries.

He named most of the present College
of Cardinals, consecrated or co-consecrated a
large number of the world's past and current
bishops, and ordained many priests. A key
goal of his papacy was to transform and
reposition the Catholic Church. His wish was
"to place his Church at the heart of a new
religious alliance that would bring together
Jews, Muslims and Christians in a great
[religious] armada".
 On 19 December 2009, John
Paul II was proclaimed venerable
by his successor Pope Benedict
XVI and was beatified on 1 May
2011.