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Pope Benedict XVI's Life in Photos
Pope Benedict XVI's Early Years
Joseph Ratzinger (pictured second from right) was born on April 16, 1927 in Bavaria, Germany. He lived through the Third Reich under Hitler; though his father, a government servant, was a Nazi resistor and Ratzinger himself entered the seminary in preparation for priesthood in his teens, he was conscripted into mandatory service for the Hitler Youth and drafted into the German airforce. He deserted his post and was captured by American soldiers as a prisoner of war for 18 months before being released and returning to his seminary studies.
His biographer Matthew Bunson shared that the future pope's own writings at the time expressed his disgust with the Nazi regime: "They had to move because of pressure to conform to the Nazi party and the whole ideology of the period. That, combined with his own Catholic experience, made him very opposed to the ideology of the Nazis."
Pope Benedict XIV's Early Career
He began his service as a chaplain in Munich in 1951, and moved quickly up the ranks of
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Pope Benedict XVI
Head of the Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013
Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus PP. XVI; Italian: Benedetto XVI; German: Benedikt XVI; born Joseph Alois Ratzinger, German:[ˈjoːzɛfˈʔaːlɔɪ̯sˈʁat͡sɪŋɐ]; 16 April 1927 – 31 December 2022) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 19 April 2005 until his resignation on 28 February 2013. Benedict's election as pope occurred in the 2005 papal conclave that followed the death of Pope John Paul II. Upon his resignation, Benedict chose to be known as "Pope emeritus", and he retained this title until his death in 2022.[9][10]
Ordained as a priest in 1951 in his native Bavaria, Ratzinger embarked on an academic career and established himself as a highly regarded theologian by the late 1950s. He was appointed a full professor in 1958 at the age of 31. After a long career as a professor of theology at several German universities, he was appointed Archbishop of Munich and Freising and created a cardinal by Pope Paul VI in 1977, an unu
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Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: A Life in Pictures
Joseph Ratzinger was a Christian for 95 years, a priest for 71 years and pope for almost eight years.
Early Years (1927-1977)
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (1977-2005)
Pope Benedict XVI (2005-2013)
Pope Emeritus (2005-2022)
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