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Pope John Paul I was born on 17 October 1912 in northern Italy. After being educated in seminaries within the diocese of Belluno, he was ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic Church on 7 July 1935. He was made bishop of Vittorio Veneto in 1958 by Pope John XXIII. Pope Paul VI appointed him patriarch of Venice in 1969, and he was named a cardinal in 1973.
