Election as Pope John Paul II
· Sistine Chapel, Apostolic Palace, Vatican City
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain in Italy (PD-Italy); may be copyrighted in the United States under URAA. · file Cardinal Wojtyła was elected pope in the October 1978 conclave and accepted the name John Paul II. The conclave article identifies the Sistine Chapel in the Apostolic Palace as the conclave location.
