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Karol Józef Wojtyła (jr) was born on 18 May 1920 in Wadowice near the city of Kraków in southern Poland, the youngest of three children. [1] His father was Karol Józef Wojtyła (senior), born on 18 July 1879 in Lipnik (now part of Bielsko-Biała). He was a non-commissioned officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army and a captain in the Polish Army.
The wedding portrait of John Paul II's parents, Emilia and Karol Wojtyła Sr. Karol Józef Wojtyła was born in the Polish town of Wadowice. [20] [21] He was the youngest of three children born to Karol Wojtyła (1879–1941), an ethnic Pole, and Emilia Kaczorowska (1884–1929), who was of distant Lithuanian heritage. [22]
Karol: The Pope, The Man is a 2006 TV miniseries directed by Giacomo Battiato chronicling Pope John Paul II's life as pope in flashbacks. [1] It covers the period of his life from the October 22, 1978 papal inauguration to his death in 2005.
Pope John Paul II is a 2005 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Pope John Paul II (Karol Józef Wojtyła) from his early adult years in Poland to his death at age 84. The miniseries was written and directed by John Kent Harrison and aired in the United States on the CBS network on December 4 and 7, 2005.
Cardinal Karol Wojtyła was elected Pope John Paul II by the second conclave on 16 October 1978. The papal conclaves of August 1978 and of October 1978 were respectively convened to elect a pope, the leader of the Catholic Church, to succeed Paul VI and John Paul I following their respective deaths on 6 August 1978 and on 28 September 1978.
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Karol Wojtyła (18 July 1879 – 18 February 1941) was a Polish military officer who was a non-commissioned officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army and a lieutenant of the Polish Armed Forces' administration. He was the father and namesake of Karol Józef Wojtyła, who became Pope John Paul II in 1978, and the father of Polish doctor Edmund ...
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