Pope Adrian VI
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Pope Adrian VI, born Adriaan Florensz Boeyens, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 January 1522 until his death on 14 September 1523. The only Dutchman to become pope, he was the last non-Italian pope until the Polish John Paul II 455 years later.
Portrait after Jan van Scorel, c. 1625 (Centraal Museum, Utrecht)
Pope Adrian VI's birthplace in Utrecht
Pope Adrian VI, 1598 engraving by Théodore Galle
Portrait of Pope Adrian VI (1568)
Pope John Paul II
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Pope John Paul II was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005.
John Paul II in 1988
Painting of Saint John Paul II painted by Zbigniew Kotyłło, 2012
The wedding portrait of John Paul II's parents, Emilia and Karol Wojtyła Sr.
Wojtyła (second from right) in a Baudienst forced labour work crew during the occupation of Poland (1939–1945), circa 1941