Editing Pope John Paul II (section)

=== Call to the episcopate ===
[[File:Krakow - 06.jpg|thumb|left|19 [[Kanonicza Street, Kraków|Kanonicza Street]] in [[Kraków]], Poland, where John Paul II lived as a priest and bishop (now an [[Archdiocesal Museum in Kraków|Archdiocese Museum]])]]

On 4 July 1958,<ref name="Vatican2" /> while Wojtyła was on a kayaking holiday in the lakes region of northern Poland, [[Pope Pius XII]] appointed him as an [[auxiliary bishop]] of Kraków. He was consequently summoned to [[Warsaw]] to meet the [[Primate (bishop)|Primate]] of Poland, Cardinal [[Stefan Wyszyński]], who informed him of his appointment.<ref name="Rise" />{{sfn|Stourton|2006|p=103}} Wojtyła accepted the appointment as auxiliary bishop to Kraków's Archbishop [[Eugeniusz Baziak]], and he received episcopal consecration (as [[titular bishop]] of [[Ombi]]) on 28 September 1958, with Baziak as the principal consecrator and as co-consecrators Bishop [[Bolesław Kominek]] (titular bishop of [[Sophene]]), auxiliary of the Catholic [[Archdiocese of Wrocław]], and [[Franciszek Jop]], [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Sandomierz|Auxiliary Bishop of Sandomierz]] (Titular Bishop of [[Daulia]]). Kominek was to become Cardinal [[Archbishop of Wrocław]] and Jop was later Auxiliary Bishop of Wrocław and then Bishop of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Opole|Opole]].<ref name="Vatican2" /> At the age of 38, Wojtyła became the youngest bishop in Poland.

In 1959, Wojtyła began an annual tradition of saying a [[Midnight Mass]] on Christmas Day in an open field at [[Nowa Huta]], the so-called model workers' town outside Kraków that was without a church building.<ref>Weigel, George. Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II (p. 151). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.</ref> Baziak died in June 1962 and on 16 July, Wojtyła was selected as ''[[Vicar Capitular]]'' ''(temporary administrator)'' of the Archdiocese until an [[archbishop]] could be appointed.<ref name="A&E" /><ref name="ShortBio" />