pope john paul xxiii

Pope John Paul XXIII
Biography

Pope John Paul the XXIII, originally known as Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, was born in 1881 in a small town called Sotto il Monte, Italy. He was educated at Bergamo and the Seminario Romano in Rome. Ordained in 1904, he served as a chaplain in World War 1. He was secretary to the Bishop of Bergamo from 1904-14. He wrote scholarly works which included a life of St. Charles Borromeo. While he was serving for the Bishop he was called up for service in World War 1. He was first in the medical corps and was later a chaplain. After he got back from the war he went to Rome and reorganized the Society for the Propagation of the Faith.
In 1925 he was made into an archbishop and sent as Vatican diplomatic representative of the country Bulgaria. Later he became a representative for Turkey and Greece. In 1944 he was named papal nuncio to France. There he was a mediator for the conservative church people and for more socially “radical clergy”. Whi...