Who is Paul VI?

Pope Paul VI, born Giovanni Battista Montini, was born in 1897 in the northern Italian province of Brescia and was ordained to the priesthood in 1920. He was named Archbishop of Milan in 1954. After he was elected Pope in 1963, he reconvened the Second Vatican Council and presided over the final three of its four sessions. He oversaw the promulgation of all of the council’s documents and led the process of implementing the council’s reforms. n 1968 he discontinued most of the ceremonial functions of the old Roman nobility at the papal court, save for the Prince Assistants to the Papal Throne. He also abolished the Palatine Guard and the Noble Guard, leaving the Swiss Guard as the sole military order of the Vatican. In 1965 he established the Synod of Bishops, but nevertheless reserved certain pronouncements to papal authority alone, including priestly celibacy and contraception, both of which became the subject of controversial encyclicals, Sacerdotalis Caelibatus and Humanae Vitae respectively. Pope Paul VI died at the papal summer villa in Castel Gandolfo on 6 August 1978.

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