{"id":56990,"date":"2016-08-02T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2016\/08\/02\/cardinal-franciszek-macharski-karol-wojtyla-s-successor-in-krakow-dies-at-age-89-2\/"},"modified":"2016-08-02T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T17:04:00","slug":"cardinal-franciszek-macharski-karol-wojtyla-s-successor-in-krakow-dies-at-age-89-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2016\/08\/02\/cardinal-franciszek-macharski-karol-wojtyla-s-successor-in-krakow-dies-at-age-89-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Franciszek Macharski, Karol Wojtyla's successor in Krakow, dies at age 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Archbishop of Krakow died on Tuesday, days after he received a surprise visit from Pope Francis while he was at WYD in Poland. ;<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Macharski was born May 20, 1927, and played a significant role in opposing the Nazi occupation of his era. ;<\/p>\n<p>He guided the Church of his diocese during the difficult transition from communism to democracy. ;<\/p>\n<p>The 89-year-old cardinal served as the Archbishop of Krakow since 1978, when Pope John Paul II was elected as<br \/>\n\t\tpope, and retired in 2005. ;<\/p>\n<p>With his death, the College of Cardinals now has 211 cardinals, and 112 of them are able to vote in an eventual conclave. ;<\/p>\n<p>MB<br \/>\nRR<br \/>\nSV<br \/>\nBN<br \/>\nUp:YA ;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 2, 2016. The former Archbishop of Krakow met with Pope Francis in Poland last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ZXlcqF6ZXdw","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcardmacharskiint.mov","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}