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Pope Paul VI

Pope Paul VI

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Leader of the Roman Catholic Church from 1963 to 1978
  • proper noun
: Papa Pablo VI
  • Her agnosticism notwithstanding, Rosemary reveres Pope Paul VI, who makes a cameo appearance in Levin's book.

Examples

  • Under the leadership of Pope Paul VI, the Vatican abandoned its de facto alliance with the West, pursuing instead a policy of non-alignment with the superpowers.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Thus, in 1971, Pope Paul VI wrote Octogesimo adveniens ("On the Eightieth Year").

    Academic text (2007)
  • Even Pope Paul VI could admit to that.

    Blog text (10)
  • Here is the reasoning given by Pope Paul VI during that time:

    Blog text (31)
  • #1 Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity (Apostolicam Actuositatem), promulgated by Pope Paul VI.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Later in the same decade, the rebellious Canadian bishops also issued the Winnipeg Statement dissenting from and subverting Pope Paul VI's "Humanae Vitae."

    Blog text (31)
  • I will refer to its "correction" in the apostolic exhortation of Pope Paul VI, Evangelii nuntiandi of 1975, and its absence in the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church issued in 2004 by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

    Academic text (2007)
  • By issuing the encyclical, Populorum Progressio, and the apostolic letter, Octagesima Adveniens, Pope Paul VI continued the process of strategic change in Vatican foreign policy by pursuing social justice through Third World outreach and support for East European economic, political, and social reform.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Pope Paul VI made significant strides in promoting ecumenical relations among different Christian denominations.

  • In 1965, Pope Paul VI became the first pope to travel to the United Nations headquarters in New York City.

Synonyms

Paul VI
vsPope Paul VI
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A religious leader of the Roman Catholic Church from 1963 to 1978 who led church reforms

is the official title that also highlights ecumenical relations
Giovanni Battista Montini
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The birth name of Pope Paul VI, an Italian who led the Catholic Church from 1963 to 1978

uses the official title rather than the birth name

Surface Forms

Morphology

Pope + Paul + VI

This is a referential proper name formed compositionally from 'Pope' (the office) + 'Paul' (the personal name) + 'VI' (the numeral six), so a learner who knows the constituents can infer it refers to the sixth Pope named Paul. Proper-name ordinal constructions are cross-linguistically common and not idiomatic, making the meaning directly recoverable from the parts.

Etymology

Pope Paul VI comes from the custom that a new pope picks a name. He chose Paul to honour the early Christian teacher St Paul and added VI, the Roman numeral for 'six', because he was the sixth pope with that name. So Pope Paul VI refers to the man who led the Catholic Church from 1963 to 1978 and who guided important changes and talks with other Christian groups.