Pope John XXIII
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| motto: Oboedientia et pax | |
| Birth name | Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli |
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| Born | November 25, 1881 Sotto il Monte, Bergamo, Italy |
| Died | June 3, 1963 Apostolic Palace, Vatican City |
| Papacy from | October 28, 1958 – June 3, 1963 |
| Came after | Pope Pius XII |
| Came before | Pope Paul VI |
The Blessed Pope John XXIII (Latin: Ioannes XXIII), born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (November 25, 1881 - June 3, 1963), was the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1958 until his death in 1963.
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He was born the fourth of thirteen children, and his family was sharecroppers. In 1904 he was ordained a priest in a Roman Church of Santa Maria. Later in 1905, the new Bishop of Bergamo, Giacomo Maria Radini Tedeschi, appointed Angelo his secretary. Angelo went with Bishop Giacomo to all his pastoral visits. Angelo also helped him with many other tasks like managing the diocesan bulletin, going on pilgrimages, and social works. Angelo did even more work in the seminary using his very good preaching skills he taught history, patrology and apologetics. It was in the seminary he met the two future saints that would affect his life dramatically. These two Saints were St. Charles Borromeo and St. Francis de Sales, who were both very good pastors in the same seminary, and had a kind of apprentice like relationship. Father Angelo was extremely devoted to Bishop Giacomo until his death in 1914. After Bishop Giacomo’s death, Father Angelo continued teaching in the seminary, but was dragged into World War I and served as a medical corps sergeant and after the war started Italy’s first home for poor young students. His life after the war started changing dramatically, and he even got the attention of Pope Pius XI.
Pope Pius XI named him Apostolic Visitator in Bulgaria, which brought him to the episcopate with the titular Diocese of Areopolis. He chose a motto, Oboedientia et Pax, which was his motto for the rest of his life.
