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The diocesan newspaper said Pope John Paul’s place in the liturgical calendar will be in October, at the date of his election as Pope.

He was elected in April, so that does not match. According to an April 11 CNS article,

The feast day of Blessed John Paul II will be marked Oct. 22 each year in Rome and the dioceses of Poland.
In the Diocese of Rome, where Pope John Paul served as bishop, and in all the dioceses of his native Poland, his feast day is to be inserted automatically into the annual calendar, the decree said. Oct. 22 was chosen as the day to remember him because it is the anniversary of the liturgical inauguration of his papacy in 1978.
Outside Rome and Poland, bishops will have to file a formal request with the Vatican to receive permission to mark the feast day, the decree said. The local-only celebration of a blessed's feast is one of the most noticeable differences between being beatified and being canonized, which makes universal public liturgical veneration possible.

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Oct. 22 was chosen as the day to remember him because it is the anniversary of the liturgical inauguration of his papacy in 1978.

Now I'm confused. Is the "liturgical inauguration" not on or about the date of his election as Pope?

Anyway, I'd like April 2 better, because it's my second daughter's birthday and I'd easily remember it.

The diocesan newspaper said Pope John Paul’s place in the liturgical calendar will be in October, at the date of his election as Pope.

He was elected in April, so that does not match.

I looked it up and JPI was buried in early October of 1978. The election was not even three weeks later. I remember watching all of it happen and due to the classroom I was in, this jives.