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Curial Dismay. Villot will also have to face a certain amount of ferment within the Vatican itself. Some Italian curialists were openly dismayed that the Pope had chosen a foreigner for the job, and the energetic Villot will certainly crimp the style of Archbishop Giovanni Benelli, the aggressive young sostituto (deputy) to Cicognani, who had been more or less running the Secretariat by himself (TIME, March 14). The significance of the job is such that Villot is now automatically considered papabile—the Italian term used to describe potential candidates for the papacy. Since there has not been a non-Italian Pope since Hadrian VI (1522-23), even such speculation gives him unusually powerful clout as the Vatican's new Secretary of State.