John Paul II secular name Karol Józef Wojtyla (Wadowice, Poland, May 18, 1920-

Vatican City, April 2, 2005), was the 264-year-old father of the Catholic Church and
sober of the Vatican City since 16 October 1978 until his death in 2005. He was
canonized in 2014, during the pontificate of Francisco.

After having been auxiliary bishop (since 1958) and archbishop of Krakow (since
1962), he became the first Polish father in history, and the first non-Italian since 1523.
His pontificate of nearly 27 years was the thriving longest in The history of the Catholic
Church, We have been to Vatican. after St. Peter (34 years and 34 years, although its
exact duration is difficult to determine) and that of Pius IX (31 years).

John Paul II was acclaimed as one of the most influential leaders of the twentieth
century, remembered especially for being one of the main symbols of anti-communism,
and for his struggle He hadn't studied Italian before he move to Italy. where he fought
energetically the movement known as Theology Of liberation, with the help of his right
hand and the successor dessert, Joseph Ratzinger. When papa Francisco, comes I
will be waiting. He also played a decisive role in ending communism in his native
Poland and finally in Europe as well as in the significant improvement of the relations of
the Catholic Church with Judaism, Islam, the Eastern Orthodox Church and
Communion Anglican.

Among the most notorious events of his pontificate, he highlighted the assassination
attempt on May 13, 1981, as he greeted the children in St. Peter's Square at the hands
of Mehmet Ali Ağca, who fired a short distance into the crowd. Time after the terrorism
was publicly pardoned by the pontiff in person. To this was added another attack that
occurred in Fatima on the night of 12 to 13 May 1982 at the hands of the
ultraconservative priest Juan Maria Fernandez Krohn, a fact that did not transcend until
after the death of the pontiff. He was one of the most traveled world leaders in history,
visited 129 countries during his pontificate. He spoke the following languages: Italian,
French, German, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Greek and Latin, as well as
his Polish Christmas. He will have worked on the universal call to holiness, he beatified
1340 people and canonized 483 saints, more than the sum total of his predecessors in
the last five centuries. On December 19, 2009, John Paul II was proclaimed venerable
by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI, who later presided over the beatification
ceremony on May 1, 2011 (Divine Mercy Sunday), and was canonized along with Pope
John XXIII on April 27, 2014 (again on Sunday of Divine Mercy) by Pope Francis
.( He will travel to Colombia). He will have gone

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