biography
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John Paul I
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originally Albino Luciani
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| sex:
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| lived:
| (1912–78)
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| biography:
| Pope (Aug–Sep 1978), born in Forno di Canale, NE Italy. He studied at the Gregorian University in Rome, and was ordained in 1935. He became a parish priest and teacher in Belluno, vicar-general of the diocese of Vittorio Veneto (1954), a bishop (1958), patriarch of Venice (1969), and a cardinal (1973). He was the first pope to use a double name (from his two immediate predecessors, John XXIII and Paul VI). He died only 33 days later, the shortest pontificate of modern times. |
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