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Pope Benedict XVI
(1927-2022)
Who Is Pope Benedict XVI?
Pope Benedict XVI grew up under war reparations from World War I, as the Nazi regime was gaining power.
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He was briefly a member of the Hitler Youth in his early teens after membership became mandatory in 1941. He turned to theological studies after the war, helping found the influential journal Communio. He was elevated to the papacy in 2005.
In February 2013, Benedict XVI shocked Catholic leadership and faithful alike by resigning from his position as pope, the first to do so in six centuries.
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He lived in a monastery on Vatican grounds until his death on December 31, 2022 at the age of 95.
Early Life
Pope Benedict XVI was born Joseph Ratzinger on April 16, 1927, in Marktl am Inn, Bavaria, Germany, the youngest of three children.
His father was a policeman and his mother a hotel cook (before she married). His family moved frequently among villages in rural Bavaria, a deeply Roman Catholic region in Germany, as the Na