Pope Benedict XVI
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Benedict XVI is the pope emeritus of the catholic; he served as the 265th pope from 2005 to 2013. He was the leader of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican of city state.
He is the oldest person to have been elected pope since Pope Clement XII (1730-40) He was elected pope at the age of 78. He had served longer as a cardinal than any pope since Benedict XII (1724- 30).
He was the ninth German Pope; the last pope named Benedict was Benedict XV, an Italian who reigned 1914 to 1922, during the world war (1914-18).
Joseph was the third and youngest child of Joseph Ratzinger, Sr., a police officer and Maria Ratzinger. His brother Georg Ratzinger is a priest and former director of the Regensburg Domspatzen choir; his sister, Maria Ratzinger, never married, she managed the cardinal Ratzinger’s household until her death in 1991. Their grand-uncle was the German politician Georg Ratzinger.
At the age of five Ratzinger was among a group of children who welcomed the visiting cardinal Archbishop of Munich with flowers. He later announced the same day that he wanted to be a cardinal.
In 1941 while he was 14 years old, he was conscripted into the Hitler Youth as required by law for all 14-year old German boys after December 1939. As an unenthusiastic member he refused to attend meetings.
While in the seminary in 1943 he was drafted into the German anti-aircraft corpas as Luftwaffenhelfer (air force child soldier). He trained in German infantry but left towards the end of the war, he was arrested by American soldiers who held him, Prisoner of War for some months until he was released and returned to his family in Traustein in 1945.
He re-entered the Saint Michael Seminary in Traustein, along with his brother, Georg. He was ordained priest in 1951 in his hometown Bavaria and was later appointed a full professor in 1958 at the Freising College where he taught dogma and fundamental theology.
He served as Vice President of the University of Regensburg from 1976 to 1977 and later became the Archbishop of Munich and Freising and Cardinal, ordained by Pope Paul VI in 1977.
He was Cardinal- Priest of Santa Maria Consolatrice al Tiburtino from 1977 to 1993.
In 1981 he settled in Rome when he became Prefect of the congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He was the president of the International Theological Commissions from 1981 to 2005. He was President of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1981 to 2005, President of the Pontifical Biblical Commission from 1981 to 2005.
From 1993 to 2005 Joseph Aloysius was Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri-Segni. From 2002 until 2005 when he was elected pope, he was the Dean of the College of Cardinals.
He is the first pope to resign since Pope Gregory XII in 1415 and the first to do so on his own initiative since Pope Celestine V in 1294.
As pope emeritus, Benedict retains the style of His Holiness, and the title of pope, and will continue to dress in the papal color of white.
He is expected to move into the newly renovated Matr Ecclesiae monastery for his retirement.
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