Pope Paul VI
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Pope Paul VI (1897-1978) reigned as Pope from 1963 to 1978; he succeeded Pope John XXIII and was succeeded by Pope John Paul I. He was born Giovanni Montini in the village of Concesio, Lombardy, in northern Italy, and was ordained priest in 1920. Having achieved high office in the Vatican bureaucracy, Montini was made Archbishop of Milan in 1954 and a Cardinal in 1958.