In 2000, Pope John Pall II was named an Honorary Harlem Globetrotter.
In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."
His press agent arranged a ceremony orchestrated in front of a crowd of 50,000 in Saint Peter's Square in which the Pope was recognized as an honorary Globetrotter.
Other notable Honorary Globetrotters: Nelson Mandela, Henry Kissinger, Bob Hope, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Whoopi Goldberg, Jackie Joyner-Kersee. and Jesse Jackson.
