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Pope Benedict

Pope Benedict XVI






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Pope Benedict XVI was born with the name Joseph Alois Ratzinger. He was born on the 16th of April 1927 and is the current head of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the 265th pope. He became pope after the death of John Paul II, and was elected on April 19, 2005. He was born into a religious family, he was baptised on the day of his birth, and his brother, Georg Ratzinger is a priest. According to relatives, he had wanted to become a cardinal after meeting the Cardinal Archbishop of Munich when he was young. He was drafted into the German army during World War II, but was known to be heavily against it. He was ordained on the 29th of June 1951. He became a professor of theology in 1958, and even did a thesis entitled: "The People and the House of God in Augustine's Doctrine of the Church". In March 1977 he was appointed Archbishop of Munich and Freising and became a cardinal 3 months later, in June. On November 25,......


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