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Karol Wojtyla

Karol Wojtyla

2 8.5
The birth name of Pope John Paul II
  • proper noun
: Karol Wojtyla
  • Before becoming Pope, Karol Wojtyla was Archbishop of Kraków.

Examples

  • Pope John Paul II was born as Karol Wojtyla.

  • Many Poles take pride in the fact that Karol Wojtyla became Pope John Paul II.

  • A museum in Wadowice is dedicated to the early life of Karol Wojtyla.

  • Karol Wojtyla became Pope in 1978.

  • Before becoming Pope, Karol Wojtyla was Archbishop of Kraków.

  • A museum in Wadowice is dedicated to the early life of Karol Wojtyla.

  • Many Poles take pride in the fact that Karol Wojtyla became Pope John Paul II.

Synonyms

John Paul II
vsKarol Wojtyla
43 4.0

A Polish priest who was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005

is the birth name used before adopting the papal name
Pope John Paul II
vsKarol Wojtyla
29 4.2

The leader of the Roman Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005 who was the first to come from Poland

is the personal birth name, not the official church title

Surface Forms

Karol Wojtyla main

Morphology

Karol + Wojtyla

This item is a proper personal name whose meaning is purely referential (the birth name of Pope John Paul II) and not compositionally built from the constituents. The tokens 'Karol' and 'Wojtyla' carry no transparent lexical meaning in English that would allow a B1 learner to infer this referent, so the sense must be learned separately.

Etymology

Karol Wojtyla was the 'birth name' of the man who later became Pope John Paul II, the first pope from Poland and the first non-Italian in more than 450 years. So today Karol Wojtyla usually means the young man who became Pope John Paul II.