John Paul II

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264th Pope of the Catholic Church

Beginning Pontificate	16,22.X.1978
End Pontificate	2.IV.2005
Secular Name	Karol Wojtyła
Birth	Wadowice (Kraków)
Website	http://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en.html

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John Paul II

Messages Pontifical Messages 1996

Message to the participants in the Convention sponsored by the Union of Italian Catholic Jurists (December 6, 1996)

ES - IT
Message on the 70th anniversary of the ordination in Rome of the first group of Chinese Bishops and the 50th anniversary of the institution of the ecclesiastical hierarchy in China (December 3, 1996)

IT - ZH
Message to participants in a study session of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (November 29, 1996)

EN - IT
Message to Italian Bishops gathered in a General Assembly in Collevalenza (November 11, 1996)

IT
Message to participants in the 7th international meeting of the "Catholic Fraternity of Covenant Communities and Fellowships" (November 9, 1996)

EN
Message to the nuns of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (October 31, 1996)

IT
Message to the Sudanese faithful of the diocese of Torit, Tombura-Yambio and Rumbek (October 24, 1996)

EN
Message to the Bishops of India and to representatives of Roman Dicasteries meeting at the Vatican (October 23, 1996)

EN
Message to the participants in the Plenary of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (October 22, 1996)

ES - FR - IT
Message for the Eucharistic celebration in memory of the seven Trappist monks killed during the month of May (October 10, 1996)

IT
Message to the participants in the 2nd Interconfessional Conference of Minsk (September 26, 1996)

FR
Message to the participants in the 12th International Mariological Congress in Czestochowa (August 15, 1996)

IT
Message to the participants in the National Meeting of the Catholic Youth of Croatia (June 2, 1996)

IT
Message to members of the "Papal Foundation" (April 24, 1996)

EN
Message to the Xaverian Missionaries who had come to Rome for the Beatification of Bishop Guido Maria Conforti (March 18, 1996)

IT
Message to the Combonians who had come to Rome for the Beatification of Bishop Daniele Comboni (March 18, 1996)

IT
Message for the opening of the Brotherhood Campaign in Brazil (February 22, 1996)

IT

The Holy See

Messages Pontifical Messages 1996

Message to the participants in the Convention sponsored by the Union of Italian Catholic Jurists (December 6, 1996)

Message on the 70th anniversary of the ordination in Rome of the first group of Chinese Bishops and the 50th anniversary of the institution of the ecclesiastical hierarchy in China (December 3, 1996)

Message to Italian Bishops gathered in a General Assembly in Collevalenza (November 11, 1996)

Message to the nuns of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (October 31, 1996)

Message to the participants in the Plenary of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (October 22, 1996)

Message for the Eucharistic celebration in memory of the seven Trappist monks killed during the month of May (October 10, 1996)

Message to the participants in the 2nd Interconfessional Conference of Minsk (September 26, 1996)

Message to the participants in the 12th International Mariological Congress in Czestochowa (August 15, 1996)

Message to the participants in the National Meeting of the Catholic Youth of Croatia (June 2, 1996)

Message to the Xaverian Missionaries who had come to Rome for the Beatification of Bishop Guido Maria Conforti (March 18, 1996)

Message to the Combonians who had come to Rome for the Beatification of Bishop Daniele Comboni (March 18, 1996)

Message for the opening of the Brotherhood Campaign in Brazil (February 22, 1996)