Pope john paul ii biography timeline report

Pope John Paul II is elected after the October Papal conclave.

As Bishop of Rome Pope John Paul II takes possession of his Cathedral Church, the Basilica of St. John Lateran.

Pope John Paul II first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.

Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.

Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives.

During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan Fernandez Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. Krohn, an ultraconservative Spanish priest opposed to the Vatican II reforms, believed that the Pope had to be killed for being an "agent of Moscow".

Korean Martyrs are canonized by Pope John Paul II in Seoul

Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in

The life, work and trials of the World’s Greatest Pole
John Paul II timeline: from boyhood to sainthood
Compiled by Robert Strybel

MAY18, Emilia née Kaczorowska Wojtyla gives birth to a baby boy against the advice of her doctor who said the infant didn’t have a chance to survive and should be aborted.

JUNE 20, The Wojtyla baby is baptized at the Wadowice parish church and receives the name Karol (the Polish equivalent of Carl or Charles).

APRIL 19, Karol suffered his first major tragedy at the age of nine, when his mother died. Right after the funeral, his father Lieutenant Karol Wojtyla senior, an army administrative official and devout Catholic, took him and his elder brother to the Marian shrine in nearby Kalwaria Zebrzydowska to pray for the repose of her soul.

SEPTEMBER Karol, known to his friends and classmates as Lolek, enrolled in the Wadowice middle school. He did well in his studies, was good at sports and was goalkeeper in school soccer matches between Catholic and Jewish students. It was there that his literary and acting inclinations began emerging. He also stood out for his piety and served as an altar boy.

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John Paul II. (civil Karol Józef Wojtyła) was the th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church (). He was the first Pole and also the first non-Italian in this office since and was born in in Cracow. During the Nazi occupation he worked in a quarry and a chemical factory. 

Later he obtained a doctorate in theology and philosophy and became a professor at the University of Lublin. In he became Archbishop of Krakow. During his pontificate he advocated dialogue between the world religions and supported the anti-communist trade union "Solidarność" in his home country. His contribution to the democratization of Poland was decisive. He maintained a large network with the powerful leaders of the world at that time. Karol Józef Wojtyła also represented conservative positions in the field of sexual morals, which earned him much criticism in the secular press.

John Paul II was a very important Pope and the Church had every interest in quickly canonizing him. Already in , only 9 years after his death, the Catholic canonization was carried out in the presence of almost one million peopl

Biography of Pope John Paul II

Karol Józef Wojtyla , known as John Paul II since his October election to the papacy, was born in the Polish town of Wadowice, a small city 50 kilometers from Krakow, on May 18, He was the youngest of three children born to Karol Wojtyla and Emilia Kaczorowska. His mother died in His eldest brother Edmund, a doctor, died in and his father, a non-commissioned army officer died in A sister, Olga, had died before he was born.

He was baptized on June 20, in the parish church of Wadowice by Fr. Franciszek Zak, made his First Holy Communion at age 9 and was confirmed at Upon graduation from Marcin Wadowita high school in Wadowice, he enrolled in Krakow's Jagiellonian University in and in a school for drama.

The Nazi occupation forces closed the university in and young Karol had to work in a quarry () and then in the Solvay chemical factory to earn his living and to avoid being deported to Germany.

In , aware of his call to the priesthood, he began courses in the clandestine seminary of Krakow, run by Cardinal Adam Stefan Sapieha, archbishop of Krakow. At the same time, Karol Wojtyla was one of the pioneers of the "Rhaps


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