Pope Benedict and Namesake Predecessors
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 1, 2005
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...insight. When Albino Cardinal Luciano of Venice was elected pope in 1978, he took as his name the first compound name in papal history, John Paul I, as homage to his two immediate predecessors. When he died just 34 days later, his successor, Cardinal...