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 | | John Paul II, né Karol Józef Wojtya, the bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic church since 1978, the first non-Italian pope in 455 years and the first ever from a Slavic country. |
 | | Pope John Paul II John Paul II, né Karol Józef Wojtyła (born May 18, 1920 in Wadowice), the bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic church since 1978, the first non-Italian pope in 455 years and the first ever from a Slavic country. |
 | | When on October 16, 1978 (first Mass on October 22), at age 58, he succeeded Pope John Paul I, he fulfilled a prophesy made to him decades earlier by Padre Pio that he would one day be pope. |
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