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Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus PP. XVI; Italian: Benedetto XVI; German: Benedikt XVI; born Joseph Alois Ratzinger German pronunciation: [ˈjoːzɛf ˈʔaːlɔɪ̯s ˈʁat͡sɪŋɐ]; 16 April 1927 – 31 December 2022) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 19 April 2005 until his ...
Dec 31, 2022 · Former Pope Benedict XVI has died at the age of 95 after a period of ill health, the Vatican announced Saturday. Dignitaries and religious leaders are paying tribute to the former pope, who in...
Dec 31, 2022 · Pope Benedict XVI, the eminent German theologian and conservative enforcer of Roman Catholic Church doctrine who broke with almost 600 years of tradition by resigning and then living for nearly a...
Learn about the life, teachings and legacy of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, on the official Vatican website.
May 20, 2024 · Benedict XVI was bishop of Rome and head of the Roman Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013. His papacy faced several challenges, including the effects of the scandal beginning in the late 1990s surrounding the church’s handling of sexual abuse by priests. He became the first pope to resign since Pope Gregory XII in 1415.
Dec 31, 2022 · Farewell to Benedict XVI: ‘Humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord'. The 95-year-old Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI passed away on Saturday at 9:34 AM in his residence at the Vatican's Mater Ecclesiae Monastery. By Vatican News. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has returned to the Father’s House.
Dec 31, 2022 · Benedict XVI, the pope emeritus, a quiet scholar of diamond-hard intellect who spent much of his life enforcing church doctrine and defending tradition before shocking the Roman Catholic...
Dec 31, 2022 · Following the announcement of the passing of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on Saturday at the age of 95, we look back at his long life and its main highlights with the following official biography. By Vatican News
Apr 19, 2005 · BENEDICT XVI. Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) was born on 16 April 1927 in Marktl am Inn, Germany. His father, a police officer, came from a traditional family of farmers from Lower Bavaria. He spent his adolescent years in Traunstein, a small town on the Austrian border.
Dec 31, 2022 · ROME — Pope Benedict XVI, the first pontiff to step down since the 15th century, died on Saturday in Vatican City at age 95. For several days, he had experienced declining health due to his...
