Maurizio Lombardi is an actor who appeared in "The New Pope," "Name of the Rose," and "Ripley."
As Pope Pius XIII hangs between life and death in a coma, charming and sophisticated moderate English aristocrat Sir John Brannox is placed on the papal throne and adopts the name John Paul III.
An American named Lenny Belardo becomes pope, Pius XIII, and shocks the Vatican with his reforms and public relations strategies. He chooses the nun who raised him, Sister Mary, as his closest adviser.
