Pope John Paul II Cardinals would be the ones who would give him most support at his eventual election to the papacy In August 1978, following the death of Pope Paul VI, Cardinal Wojtyła voted in the papal conclave, which elected Pope John Paul I. John Paul I died after only 33 days as pope, triggering another conclave. The second conclave of 1978 started on 14 October, ten days after the funeral. It was split between two strong candidates for the papacy: Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, the conservative Archbishop of Genoa, and the liberal Archbishop of Florence, Giovanni Cardinal Benelli, a close friend of John
Pope Sabinian Pope Sabinian Pope Sabinian (, d. 22 February 606) was Pope from 13 September 604 to his death in 606, during the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) domination of the Papacy; he was the fourth former "apocrisiarius" to Constantinople to be elected pope. Sabinian was born at Blera (Bieda) near Viterbo. He had been sent by Pope Gregory I as Apostolic "nuncio", to Constantinople, but he apparently was not entirely satisfactory in that office. He returned to Rome in 597. He was probably consecrated pope on 13 September 604. The erudite Italian Augustinian Onofrio Panvinio (1529–1568), in his "Epitome pontificum Romanorum" (Venice,