Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus PP. XVI; Italian: Benedetto XVI; German: Benedikt XVI; Spanish: Benedicto XVI; French: Benoît XVI), born Joseph Alois Ratzinger (April 16, 1927 in Marktl am Inn, Bavaria, Germany), is the 265th and reigning pope, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City State. He was elected on April 19, 2005, in a papal conclave over which he presided in his capacity as dean of the College of Cardinals. He celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on April 24, 2005, and took possession of his cath ...

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Pope Benedict XVI was elected pope at the age of 78. He is the oldest person to have been elected pope since Clement XII in 1730. He served longer as a cardinal before being elected pope than did any pope since Benedict XIII (elected 1724). He is the ninth German pope, the last being the Dutch-German Adrian VI (1522–1523). The last pope named Benedict was Benedict XV, an Italian who reigned from 1914 to 1922, during World War I. Born in Bavaria, Germany, Benedict had a distinguished career as a university theologian before being app ...

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Pope Benedict XVI - Election to the Papacy. On January 2, 2005, Time magazine quoted unnamed Vatican sources as saying that Ratzinger was a frontrunner to succeed John Paul II should the pope die or become too ill to continue as pope. On the death of John Paul II, the Financial Times gave the odds of Ratzinger becoming pope as 7–1, the lead position, but close to his rivals on the liberal wing of the church. In April 2005, before his election as pope, he was identified as one of the 100 mo ...

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The coat of arms of Pope Benedict XVI was designed by Archbishop Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo soon after the papal election. The coat of arms consists of a shield and external ornaments. Coat of arms of Pope Benedict XVI - Shield. The shape of the shield varies from artist to artist. In the initial rendering of the coat of arms of Pope Benedict XVI the shape chosen was that of a chalice. In heraldry, the herald and the person granted arms have considerable leeway in the contents of the shield. By lon ...

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History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Father Christ the Son The Holy Spirit The Bible Old Testament New Testament Apocrypha The Gospels Ten Commandments Sermon on the Mount Christian theology Salvation · Grace Christian worship Christian Church Catholicism Orthodox Christianity Protestantism Christian denominations Christia ...

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The Papal Coronation was a six-hour ceremony in which a new pope was crowned as head of the Roman Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City (and before 1870, head of state of the Papal States). A three-tiered Triple Tiara or Papal Tiara was used in the ceremony, and the new pope would take the papal oath. Papal Coronation - Location of the ceremony. The first papal coronations took place in St. John Lateran, the pope's cathedral. However traditionally for hundreds of years papal coronations have ...

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Benedict commonly refers to: Saint Benedict of Nursia/Italy (fl. 6th century), founder of the Benedictine Order. Pope Benedict XVI, the current Pope Other well-known persons by this name include: Earlier popes: Pope Benedict I Pope Benedict II (see below) Pope Benedict III Pope Benedict IV Pope Benedict V Pope Benedict VI Pope Benedict VII Pope Benedict VIII Pope Benedict IX Pope Benedict X (actually ...

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Saint Benedict Joseph Labre (1748 - 1783) was a French mendicant and Roman Catholic saint. The oldest of fifteen children, he was born in Amettes, near Arras in the north of France, and was religious from a very early age. He was noted for performing public acts of penance for his sins, even minor sins. At the age of sixteen, he attempted to join the Trappists, Carthusians, and Cistercians, ...

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David Allen Bawden (born September 22, 1959), is an American citizen who was elected "Pope Michael I" by a group of six Conclavist or post-Sedevacantist Catholics to fill the vacancy they consider to have been caused by the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958. He is one of a group of self-proclaimed papal pretenders (or antipopes), including Fr. Lucian Pulvermacher (proclaimed Pius XIII) in Montana and the late Clemente Domínguez y Gómez (proclaimed Gregory XVII) in Spain. David Bawden - Bawden's claim ...

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His Eminence Bernard Cardinal Agré (born March 2, 1926 in Monga, Côte d'Ivoire) is the current archbishop of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Agré was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI. Other related archives1926, 2005 papal conclave, Abidjan, Cardinal, Côte d'Ivoire, March 2, Monga, Pope Benedict XVI, Roman Catholic Church, archbishop, cardinal electors

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His Eminence Audrys Juozas Cardinal Bačkis (born February 1, 1937 in Kaunas, Lithuania) is the current archbishop of Vilnius, Lithuania, and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI. Other related archives1937, 2005 papal conclave, February 1, Kaunas, Lithuania, Pope Benedict XVI, Roman Catholic Church, Vilnius, archbishop, cardinal, cardinal electors

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Vinko Puljić (born 8 September, 1945) is a Cardinal Priest of the Roman Catholic Church in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has had the title of cardinal since 28 February 1994. He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI. Other related archives1945, 2005 papal conclave, 8 September, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cardinal Priest, Pope Benedict XVI, Roman Catholic Church, Sarajevo, cardinal electors

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Angelo Cardinal Sodano (born 23 November 1927) is the Cardinal Secretary of State and Dean of the College of Cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church. Sodano was first appointed Secretary of State by Pope John Paul II and then reappointed by Pope Benedict XVI. He became Pro-Secretary 1 December 1990, and full Secretary of State once he had been named a cardinal in the consistory of June 28, 1991. In April 2005 he succeeded Benedict as Dean of the College of Cardinals. He is the first person to se ...

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Bernard Panafieu (born January 26, 1931 in Châtellerault; pronunciation ▶ (help·info)) is a French Catholic bishop. He is currently Archbishop of Marseilles and Cardinal Priest of the Catholic Church. He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI. Other related archives1931, 2005 papal conclave, Cardinal Priest, Catholic, Catholic Church, Châ

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Sedevacantism is a theological opinion currently held by a some Traditionalist Catholics which holds that the Holy See is currently vacant. Sedevacantists regard Popes Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II and Benedict XVI as illegitimate popes due to these popes' alleged public heresy. Some Sedevacantists also regard Pope John XXIII as an illegitimate pope. Strictly speaking, the term sedevacantist should be applied only to those who believe that there is at present no reigning pope, but it is frequently used more broadly ...

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The term Holy See (Latin: Sancta Sedes, lit. "holy seat") refers in its original sense to the episcopal see of Rome, of which the Pope is the diocesan bishop (technically, the ordinary). Currently, Benedict XVI is the ordinary of the Holy See. In the sense more widely used today, as defined in canon law, the Holy See refers to the Pope, the Roman Curia, and associated institutions, in effec ...

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His Eminence Cláudio Cardinal Hummes, O.F.M. (pronounced HOO-mez) (born August 8, 1934 in Montenegro, Brazil to German-Brazilian parents) has been the Roman Catholic Archbishop of São Paulo since 1998, having previously been Archbishop of Fortaleza since 1996. He became a Cardinal in the consistory of 2001. One of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI, Hummes wa ...

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Saint Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga, born Luis Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga, popularly known as Padre Hurtado (January 22, 1901 – August 18, 1952), was a Chilean priest of the Roman Catholic Church religious order of the Society of Jesus. He was canonized on October 23, 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI, becoming his country's second saint. Saint Alberto Hurtado - Biography. Hurtado Cruchaga was born in Viña del Mar, and grew up fatherless and impoverished. His father died when he was only four years old. H ...

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Liberation theology is an important and controversial school in the theology of the Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council. It is often cited as a form of Christian socialism, and it has had particularly widespread influence in Latin America and among the Jesuits, although its influence has diminished since important parts of its teaching were rejected by the Vatican. The current pope, Benedict XVI, has also been long known as an opponent of liberation theology, and indeed in his position (1981-2005) as prefect of the ...

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