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| 1978 |
| | | Italian cardinal Albino Luciani is elected pope and takes the name John Paul I | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Pope John Paul I dies, after a pontificate of only 33 days | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla is elected pope and takes the name John Paul II | |
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| 1986 |
| | | Pope's Villa becomes St James Independent School for Boys. | |
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| 2005 |
| | | John Paul II, dying after 26 years on the papal throne, is the third longest-serving pope in history | |
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| 2005 |
| | | Patriarch Christodoulos attends the funeral in Rome of Pope John Paul II | |
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| 2005 |
| | | Joseph Ratzinger is elected pope and takes the name Benedict XVI | |
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| 2006 |
| | | Patriarch Christodoulos has talks with Pope Benedict XVI, in the first official visit to the Vatican by the head of the Greek Orthodox church | |
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| 2013 February 28 |
| | | Pope Benedict XVI resigns, the first pope to do so for 600 years | |
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| 2013 March 13 |
| | | The Argentinian archbishop Jorge Bergoglio is elected pope and takes the name Francis in honour of St Francis of Assisi | |
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