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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 ...
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 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.
Love and Responsibility is a book written by Karol Wojtyła before he became Pope John Paul II and was originally published in Polish in 1960 and in English in 1981. [1] [2] [3] A new translation was published in 2013. [4]
Karol is a biography of Karol Wojtyła, later known as Pope John Paul II, beginning in 1939 when Karol was only 19 years old and ending at the 1978 papal election that made him Pope. The TV miniseries was initially to air in early April 2005 in the Vatican, but it was delayed due to the Pope's death.
It is approximately 8 km (5 mi) northwest from the town centre. Named after Pope John Paul II, who was born Karol Wojtyła, the airport is also known as Palese Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Palese) after a nearby neighbourhood. The airport handled 6,461,179 passengers in 2023. [2]
Karol Wojtyła is the birth name of Pope John Paul II. Karol Wojtyla may also refer to: Karol Wojtyła (senior), the father of John Paul II;
Wojtyła is Polish-language surname. It arose from the nickname which is a diminutive for the given name Wojciech. [1] Notable people with this surname include: Karol Wojtyła, later Pope John Paul II; Emilia Wojtyła, mother of Karol Wojtyła; Karol Wojtyła, father of Karol Wojtyła; Edmund Wojtyła, brother of Karol Wojtyła