Timeline: Pope John XXIII (23rd)

Period: Nov 25, 1881 to Jun 3, 1963

Life of the Man

Born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli. One of 13 children to a tenant farmer in the village of Sotto il Monte in Northern Italy.
Died aged 81 to stomach cancer

Mar 28, 1892

Bergamo Seminary

1915

Called back to military service

Serves as chaplain and medic during WW1

Period: 1925 to 1934

Titular Archbishop of Areopolis

Period: 1925 to 1931

Official to Bulgaria

Period: 1934 to 1953

Titular Archbishop of Mesembria

Period: 1934 to 1944

Apostolic Delegate to Turkey

Period: 1934 to 1944

Apostolic Delegate to Greece

1935

Transferred to Istanbul

During the war years, assisted Jews in Hungary by granting leave visas to escape the Holocaust

Period: 1944 to 1953

Apostolic Nuncio to Greece

Period: 1953 to 1958

Cardinal Priest to Santa Prisca

Period: 1953 to 1958

Patriarch of Venice

Oct 18, 1958

Elected Pope

Unexpectedly Elected Pope after 11 ballots. A devout and pious man, expected to achieve little in his Papacy as a 'transitory pope'.

1959

Announcing Vatican II

Announced the creation of the Second Vatican Council, to be one of the most significant councils in the history of the Catholic Church.
Goal: To make the Catholic Church sine macula et ruga (without spot or wrinkle)
influenced across Christian faith including Protestantism. Marked real change for not just the Church but for the world as a whole.

1966

1st Miracle

Healed Sister Caterina of Capitani.
The italian nun suffered from sever bleeding and infection after operation to remove cancerous stomach tumor. Said to have roused from deathbes after praying to John 23 and seeing him by her side

Sep 3, 2000