Pope St. Paul VI
1897 CE–1978 CE · Modern · Brescia
Born Giovanni Battista Montini near Brescia, Paul VI inherited and concluded the Second Vatican Council, then undertook the immense task of implementing its reforms, including the revised liturgy. He was the first modern pope to travel widely, visiting the Holy Land, the United Nations, India, and beyond, and he advanced ecumenical and interreligious dialogue, notably reconciling with the Orthodox. His 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae, reaffirming the Church's prohibition of artificial contraception, proved deeply divisive and shaped debates that continue today. Thoughtful and sometimes anguished, he steered the Church through a period of rapid change and internal tension. He was canonized in 2018.
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About Brescia
Brescia, a city in Lombardy, northern Italy, an ancient see. It was the birthplace of Giovanni Battista Montini, the future Pope Paul VI.
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- Pope St. Pius X· 1835 CE–1914 CE
- Vladimir Solovyov· 1853 CE–1900 CE
- Pope Benedict XV· 1854 CE–1922 CE
- Sergei Bulgakov· 1871 CE–1944 CE
- Thérèse of Lisieux· 1873 CE–1897 CE
- Pope Pius XII· 1876 CE–1958 CE
- Pope St. John XXIII· 1881 CE–1963 CE
- Pavel Florensky· 1882 CE–1937 CE
- Karl Barth· 1886 CE–1968 CE
- Paul Tillich· 1886 CE–1965 CE
- Georges Florovsky· 1893 CE–1979 CE
- Henri de Lubac· 1896 CE–1991 CE
- C. S. Lewis· 1898 CE–1963 CE
- Karl Rahner· 1904 CE–1984 CE
- Yves Congar· 1904 CE–1995 CE
- Hans Urs von Balthasar· 1905 CE–1988 CE
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer· 1906 CE–1945 CE
- Pope John Paul I· 1912 CE–1978 CE
- Thomas Merton· 1915 CE–1968 CE
- Pope St. John Paul II· 1920 CE–2005 CE
- Alexander Schmemann· 1921 CE–1983 CE
- Pope Benedict XVI· 1927 CE–2022 CE
- Pope Francis· 1936 CE–2025 CE
- Pope Leo XIV· 1955 CE–
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- Zhou Enlai· 1898 CE–1976 CE
- Puyi (Xuantong Emperor)· 1906 CE–1967 CE
- Jomo Kenyatta· 1894 CE–1978 CE
- Sukarno· 1901 CE–1970 CE
- John F. Kennedy· 1917 CE–1963 CE
- Mao Zedong· 1893 CE–1976 CE
- Lyndon B. Johnson· 1908 CE–1973 CE
- Kwame Nkrumah· 1909 CE–1972 CE
- Haile Selassie I· 1892 CE–1975 CE
- Francisco Franco· 1892 CE–1975 CE
- Edward VIII· 1894 CE–1972 CE
- Nikita Khrushchev· 1894 CE–1971 CE
- Chiang Kai-shek· 1887 CE–1975 CE
- Leonid Brezhnev· 1906 CE–1982 CE
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