Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went away to Rome last Oct. 3 as Karol Wojtyla, a Cardinal-Archbishop warmly admired by his countrymen but little known elsewhere in the world. Last week he returned in triumph as John Paul II, a dynamic new Pope whose skill, originally tried and proved in day-by-day contest with Poland's Communist rulers, would be tested once again...
...Pope's nine-day visit represents a rendezvous not only with people and politics but with Poland's past pains and glories. The tour was to include his home town of Wadowice, Cracow, where he served as Archbishop, and Czestochowa, his country's holiest shrine, which contains the painting of the Black Madonna. Temporal leaders have come and gone, but the Virgin has remained for 323 years "Krolowa Polski"(the Queen of Poland).*Finally the Pope will visit Auschwitz, a symbol of Nazi infamy and to Poles a reminder of the estimated 6 million Poles, 3 million...
...shortly before Pope Paul VI made him the Vatican's "Foreign Minister," Archbishop Agostino Casaroli slipped into Poland for a visit. Not long thereafter, to Casaroli's satisfaction, Paul appointed the vigorous and intellectual Archbishop of Cracow, Karol Wojtyla, to the College of Cardinals...
...State Jean Villot. It was a foregone conclusion that a Polish Pope with no Vatican experience would have to choose an Italian to help him deal with the predominantly Italian Secretariat of State. John Paul reportedly considered giving the job to Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, 72, the hard-line conservative Archbishop of Genoa, but they could...
Those who know the Ayatullah expect that eventually he will settle in the Shi'ite holy city of Qum and resume a life of teaching and prayer. It seems improbable that he would try to become a kind of Archbishop Makarios of Iran, directly holding the reins of power. Khomeini believes that Iran should become a parliamentary democracy, with several political parties. But he is unlikely to withdraw to shadows and silence until Iran adopts a new constitution and the threat of civil war is removed...