Papabile "papabili" at the 2013 conclave which elected Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio who took the name Francis. Pope John Paul I predicted Cardinal Wojtyła – the future John Paul II – would succeed him, and Cardinal Jean-Marie Villot predicted in May 1978 that only Wojtyła could gain the support of two-thirds of the cardinal electors, but was not widely considered "papabile" because he was not Italian and came from the Eastern bloc. Papabile Papabile (, pl. "papabili") is an unofficial Italian term first coined by Vaticanologists and now used internationally in many languages to describe a Roman Catholic man, in practice
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