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Pope John Paul

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ407503 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pope John Paul is the name of two Popes of the Roman Catholic Church:

Pope John Paul I (blessed; 1978), named after his predecessors John XXIII and Paul VI; died 33 days after his election

Pope John Paul II (saint; 1978–2005), named after his predecessor John Paul I.

Other

"Pope John Paul", a song by the Montreal-based band The Lovely Feathers on their album Hind Hind Legs.

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The public source identifies “Pope John Paul” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Pope, John and Paul.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Pope, John and Paul providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q407503. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1978 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pope John Paul” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.