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Photo prise le 16 octobre 1978 au Vatican, du cardinal polonais Karol Wojtyla, devenu le 16 octobre Jean-Paul II, le premier pape non italien depuis Adrian VI de Hollande en 1542. Picture taken 16 October 1978 in Vatican City of cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Poland, who was elected 16 October successor to Pope John Paul I, the 264th Pope of the Catholic Church, the first non-Italian Pope since Adrian VI of Holland in 1542.
Pope John Paul II, 50, former Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla, smiles at the Vatican 16 October 1978, after being named at the head of the Catholic Church. Karol Wojtyla became a bishop in Krakow in 1958, and then archbishop in 1963, before ascending to the papacy as John Paul II. AFP PHOTO 000_PAR2003092683298.jpg
The newly-elected Pope John Paul II, acknowledges cheers from pilgrims crowding Saint Peter's Square from an overlooking balcony during his first appearance as pope in this Oct. 16, 1978 photo. Pope John Paul II, the Polish pontiff who led the Roman Catholic Church for more then a quarter century and became history's most-travelled Pope, died Saturday, April 2, 2005 in his Vatican apartment. He was 84.. (AP Photo/Massimo Sambucetti)