name. He reigns for only 33 days. October 16, 1978: Pope John Paul II becomes the first Polish pope and first non-Italian pope elected in 450 years; influential in overthrowing communism in Poland. 1979: Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 1979: Third Episcopal Conference of Latin America, at Puebla, Mexico, confirms option for the poor and asks affluent nations “not to put obstacles in our way to progress.” March 24, 1980: Oscar Romero, archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador, is assassinated while celebrating Mass at the Divine Providence Hospital. 1980: Czeslaw Milosz wins Nobel Prize in Literature. 1981: Henryk Gorecki composes Miserere (Gorecki). February 17–22, 1981: Pope John Paul II second visit to Philippines. February 18, 1981: Beatification of Lorenzo Ruiz and companions by Pope John Paul II held at Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines. 1983: Pope John Paul II promulgates the 1983 Code of Canon Law, a new code of canon law for the Latin Church. 1983: Lech Walesa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 1984: First World Youth Day instituted by Pope John Paul II celebrated in Rome. Celebrated every year between Rome and a different city. 1984: 103 Korean Martyrs are canonized by Pope John Paul II. August 19, 1984: El Shaddai DWXI Prayer Partners Fellowship International, largest Catholic Charismatic Renewal movement group in the Philippines, is established by Brother Mike Velarde as Servant Leader and Most Reverend Teodoro C. Bacani, Jr. as Spiritual Adviser. February 25, 1986: Manila Archbishop Jamie Cardinal Sin mobilizes People Power in Metro Manila, Philippines; President Ferdinand Marcos ousted. 1987: Marian year announced by John Paul II in the encyclical Redemptoris Mater. October 18, 1987: Lorenzo Ruiz, layperson of the Archdiocese of Manila, Philippines, is canonized by Pope John Paul II as the first Filipino saint. June 30, 1988: Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) consecrates four men as bishops at Écône, Switzerland, without the express permission of the Pope. Lefebvre et al. automatically incur excommunication. Traditionalist bishops of the SSPX continue to be suspended a divinis. 1990: Pope John Paul II promulgates the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, a reform of Eastern Catholic canon law. January 1991: Australian Catholic University opens. January 20 – February 17, 1991: Second Plenary Council in the Philippines. 1991: The Soviet Union is officially dissolved. Persecuted Catholic Church re-emerges from hiding, especially in Ukraine and Lithuania. Fourth Episcopal Conference of