Pope Pius XII
The 260th
successor of St. Peter, Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli, was born in
Rome, 2 March 1876. Two years after his ordination to the priesthood in 1899,
he entered the service of the Papal Secretariat of State. Prior to his
election as pope on 2 March 1939, he served as Secretary to the Congregation
of Ecclesiastical Affairs, Apostolic Nuncio to Bavaria and Secretary of State.
He died at Castel Gandolfo 9 October 1958 at the age of eighty-two.
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Blessed John XXIII
The 261
st successor of St. Peter was born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli on 25
November 1881, at Sotto il Monte, Bergamo, Italy. In 1921 Pope Benedict XV
called him to Rome to reorganize the Italian Society for the Propagation of
the Faith. Prior to his election as pope on 28 October 1958, he served as
Apostolic Visitor to Bulgaria, Apostolic Delegate to Turkey and Greece, Papal
Nuncio to France and Patriarch of Venice.
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Ecumenical Patriarch Athenogoras I
The
future Patriarch was born 1886 in northern Greece. In 1939 at the age of 53,
he was designated Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South
America and was a resident of New York for the next eight years. In 1947 he
was elected Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch. In 1953 he
pledged to devote the remainder of his life to the reunion of Orthodoxy. He
passed away on 7 July 1972, age 86 years.
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Pope John Paul II
The 264
th Bishop of Rome was born Karol Wojtyla, 18 May 1920, in Wadowice,
Poland, the son of a retired Austrian army officer. Adam Cardinal Sapieha
ordained him a priest, 1 November 1946 in his private chapel in Krakow,
Poland. He was ordained Archbishop of Krakow in Wawel Cathedral, 28 September
1958; invested as a cardinal 28 June 1967 and elected Pope on 16 October 1978.
He died Saturday, 2 April 2005, after a pontificate of 26 years, five months
and seventeen days, the third longest in history.
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Maximos V, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, of Alexandria and Jerusalem
Patriarch
Maximos, one of the most influential Fathers of Vatican II, was born in 1878
and was ordained a priest in 1905. In 1919 he was elected Metropolitan of
Tyre and in 1933, Metropolitan of Beirut, a trust he held until his election
as Patriarch of Antioch in 1947. On 22 February 1965 he agreed to become a
cardinal of the Universal Church. He died in 1967 at the age of 89.
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