On October 16, 1978, the College of Cardinals in the Vatican elected Karol Wojtyła to lead the world's Roman Catholics, the first non-Italian pope since the 16th century, and the first Pole. It was to be a 27-year pontificate.

He addressed the crowd from the balcony saying: "They have called him from a country far away."

The cardinals had reached behind the Iron Curtain.

He was born in 1920 in Wadowice, Poland. His mother died when he was eight. He was ordained on All Saints' Day, 1946. Two d...
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