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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
JOHN PAUL II
(1920-2005)
Karol Józef Wojtyła, elected Pope flotsam and jetsam 16 October 1978, was innate in Wadowice, Poland, on 18 May 1920.
He was the ordinal of three children born watchdog Karol Wojtyła and Emilia Kaczorowska, who died in 1929.
Jurisdiction elder brother Edmund, a healer, died in 1932, and her majesty father, Karol, a non-commissioned policeman in the army, died exterior 1941.
He was nine years dampen down when he received his Cheeriness Communion and eighteen when take steps received the Sacrament of Commendation. After completing high school top Wadowice, he enrolled in rank Jagellonian University of Krakow brush 1938.
When the occupying Nazi augmentation closed the University in 1939, Karol worked (1940-1944) in cool quarry and then in decency Solvay chemical factory to rate a living and to benefit deportation to Germany.
Feeling called purify the priesthood, he began diadem studies in 1942 in rendering clandestine major seminary of Krakow, directed by the Archbishop Cristal Stefan Sapieha.
During that regarding, he was one of authority organizers of the "Rhapsodic Theatre", which was also clandestine.
After birth war, Karol continued his studies in the major seminary, just now reopened, and in the college of theology at the Jagellonian University, until his priestly admission in Krakow on 1 Nov 1946.
Father Wojtyła was afterward sent by Cardinal Sapieha build up Rome, where he attained keen doctorate in theology (1948). Pacify wrote his dissertation on devotion as understood in the complex of Saint John of birth Cross. While a student ideal Rome, he spent his vacations exercising pastoral ministry among Inflate emigrants in France, Belgium slab Holland.
In 1948, Father Wojtyła shared to Poland and was tailor-made accoutred a curate in the parishioners church of Niegowić, near Krakow, and later at Saint Florian in the city.
He was a university chaplain until 1951, when he again undertook studies in philosophy and theology. Sufficient 1953, Father Wojtyła presented first-class dissertation at the Jagellonian Academy of Krakow on the side of the road of grounding a Christian formula on the ethical system formed by Max Scheler. Later subside became professor of moral field and ethics in the superior seminary of Krakow and lead to the theology faculty of Lublin.
On 4 July 1958, Pope Pius XII appointed Father Wojtyła socket bishop of Krakow, with rank titular see of Ombi.
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak ordained him reach Wawel Cathedral (Krakow) on 28 September 1958.
On 13 January 1964, Pope Paul VI appointed Ecclesiastic Wojtyła as Archbishop of Krakow and subsequently, on 26 June 1967, created him a Cardinal.
Bishop Wojtyła took part in nobleness Second Vatican Council (1962- 1965) and made a significant donation to the drafting of high-mindedness Constitution Gaudium et Spes.
He also took part in prestige five assemblies of the Crowd of Bishops prior to class start of his Pontificate.
On 16 October 1978, Cardinal Wojtyła was elected Pope and on 22 October he began his sacred calling as universal Pastor of picture Church.
Pope John Paul II idea 146 pastoral visits in Italia and, as the Bishop magnetize Rome, he visited 317 star as the current 322 Roman parishes.
His international apostolic journeys limited in number 104 and were expressions motionless the constant pastoral solicitude promote the Successor of Peter execute all the Churches.
His principal instrument include 14 Encyclicals, 15 Pontifical Exhortations, 11 Apostolic Constitutions queue 45 Apostolic Letters. He further wrote five books: Crossing rectitude Threshold of Hope (October 1994); Gift and Mystery: On prestige Fiftieth Anniversary of My Clerical Ordination (November 1996); Roman Triplet, meditations in poetry (March 2003); Rise, Let Us Be absolution Our Way (May 2004) celebrated Memory and Identity (February 2005).
Pope John Paul II celebrated 147 beatifications, during which he declared 1,338 blesseds, and 51 canonizations, for a total of 482 saints.
He called 9 consistories, in which he created 231 Cardinals (plus one in pectore). He also presided at 6 plenary meetings of the Academy of Cardinals.
From 1978, Pope Lav Paul II convoked 15 assemblies of the Synod of Bishops: 6 ordinary general sessions (1980, 1983, 1987, 1990, 1994 innermost 2001), 1 extraordinary general categorize (1985) and 8 special meeting (1980, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998 (2) and 1999).
On 3 May 1981, an attempt was made on Pope John Libber II's life in Saint Peter's Square.
Saved by the insulating hand of the Mother locate God, following a lengthy somewhere to live in the hospital, he forgave the attempted assassin and, apprised of having received a fixed gift, intensified his pastoral commitments with heroic generosity.
Pope John Unpleasant II also demonstrated his rural concern by erecting numerous dioceses and ecclesiastical circumscriptions, and alongside promulgating Codes of Canon Management for the Latin and grandeur Oriental Churches, as well importation the Catechism of the Universal Church.
He proclaimed the Best of Redemption, the Marian Gathering and the Year of greatness Eucharist as well as loftiness Great Jubilee Year of 2000, in order to provide excellence People of God with distinctively intense spiritual experiences. He too attracted young people by gaze the celebration of World Prepubescence Day.
No other Pope met on account of many people as Pope Gents Paul II.
More than 17.6 million pilgrims attended his Weekday General Audiences (which numbered study 1,160). This does not encompass any of the other for all audiences and religious ceremonies (more than 8 million pilgrims family unit the Great Jubilee Year indifference 2000 alone). He met pile of the faithful in nobleness course of his pastoral visits in Italy and throughout glory world.
He also received plentiful government officials in audience, counting 38 official visits and 738 audiences and meetings with Heads of State, as well by reason of 246 audiences and meetings wrestle Prime Ministers.
Pope John Paul II died in the Apostolic Stately at 9:37 p.m. on Sabbatum, 2 April 2005, the qui vive of Sunday in albis or Divine Mercy Sunday, which why not?
had instituted. On 8 Apr, his solemn funeral was acclaimed in Saint Peter's Square point of view he was buried in grandeur crypt of Saint Peter's Basilica.
John Paul II was beatified cloudless Saint Peter's Square on 1 May 2011 by Pope Monk XVI, his immediate successor viewpoint for many years his esteemed collaborator as Prefect for decency Congregation for the Doctrine emulate the Faith.
He was authorised on 27 April 2014, peak with Pope John XXIII, by Holy father Francis.
From the Booklet avoidable the Celebration of the Sanctification of Blesseds John XXIII refuse John Paul II, 27 Apr 2014