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The Shoes of the Fisherman is a novel by the Australian writer Morris West first published in 1963.The novel concerns the election of a Ukrainian pope and is a dissection of Vatican politics. Many of the characteristics of Father Telemond were based on the controversial French Jesuit palaeontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Morris West’s Kiril Pavlovich Lakota is inspired by the life of two Ukrainian Catholic bishops: Cardinal Josyf Slipyj and Bishop Hryhorij Lakota.