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Pope John Paul II began his papacy on October 16,1978.
Pope John Paul I was in office such a short time (33 days) he had little time to leave his mark on the papacy.
He died after only 33 days in the position of pope.
The Blessed Virgin Mary. That is why the letter M appears on his coat of arms.
Pope John Paul was undoubtedly a very saintly and charismatic person but was not a good leader. During his papacy he seemed oblivious to all the scandals occurring in the Vatican at the time. Even Father Gabriele Amorth, the chief exorcist for the Vatican at the time, commented that Satan was running rampant in the Vatican. Thankfully, Pope Benedict XVI is doing a bit of quiet housekeeping to restore true leadership to the papacy.
There has never been a Pope Paul XI.
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One, it was Pope John Paul II (Cardinal Karol Wojtyla) who was the first non-Italian in four hundred years and only Polish citizen to be elected to the papacy.
Pope Paul VI was pope from 1963 until 1978.
Although Pope John Paul II visited the United States several times and Pope Benedict visited the US in 2008, Pope John XXIII never visited the U.S. during his papacy.
His papacy began on 16th October 1978 and it ended on 2nd April 2005. He was a pope for more than two and a half decades.
Roman Catholic AnswerThere are different numbers given, I have seen 476, and 482. There is a complete link of all the saints Bl. John Paul II canonized at the link below, along with links to their biographies.