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Highlights from the life of Pope Benedict XVI

By Associated Press and Pool

Dec. 31, 2022

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The archbishop of Munich and Freising, Joseph Ratzinger, on June 22, 1977, in Munich, Germany. The Vatican announced Saturday Dec. 31, that Benedict, the former Joseph Ratzinger, had died at age 95.
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Newly nominated Archbishop of Munich and Freising, Joseph Ratzinger, right, prays with Bishop Erns Tewes in the Crypta of the Cathedral of Freising, southern Germany on March 31, 1977.
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Joseph Ratzinger, archbishop of Munich and Freising, greets children in front of the Ramersdorfer Marienkirche (church of Mary) after being nominated archbishop on May 23, 1977.
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Pope John Paul II, left, stands next to German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger at the Vatican in 1979.
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German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and President of the Pontifical Biblical Commission and of the International Theological Commission, at the Vatican, on May 30, 1991.
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Then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, blesses the coffin containing the body of Pope John Paul II, during the funeral mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, on April 8, 2005.
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Pope Benedict XVI attends his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2005.
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Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, on April 19, 2005, soon after his election.
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Pope Benedict XVI wears a "saturno hat", inspired by the ringed planet Saturn, to shield himself from the sun as he is driven through the crowd of faithful prior to his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, on Sept. 6, 2006.
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Rev. Georg Gaenswein, back, helps put a cap on Pope Benedict XVI's head at the end of the pontiff's weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, on Oct. 25, 2006.
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Pope Benedict XVI looks at the Centro Cadore lake in Domegge, Lorenzago di Cadore, near Belluno, Italy, on July 23, 2007.
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Pope Benedict XVI, center, talks to an Australian Aborigine while waving to pilgrims aboard a harbor cruise in Sydney, Australia, on July 17, 2008.
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Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful as he arrives to celebrate Vespers at the Basilica in Yaounde, Cameroon, on March 18, 2009.
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President Bush walks with Pope Benedict XVI to the Lourdes Grotto at the Vatican on June 13, 2008.
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President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama meet with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on July 10, 2009.
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Pope Benedict XVI walks through the gate of the former Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz, with sign above reading in German "Work will set you free", in Oswiecim, Poland, on May 28, 2006.
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Pope Benedict XVI looks at a book presented to him by French Prime Minister Francois Fillon during a private audience at the Vatican, on Oct. 10, 2009.
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Pope Benedict XVI waves from his pope mobile as it rains, after the traditional prayer to celebrate the Immaculate Conception, in Rome, on Dec. 8, 2009.
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Pope Benedict XVI attends a gathering with youths in St. Peter's square, at the Vatican, on Thursday, March 25, 2010.
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Pope Benedict XVI signs the golden book of Freiburg in front of the cathedral in Freiburg, Germany, on Sept. 24, 2011.
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Pope Benedict XVI waves from the popemobile wearing a Mexican sombrero as he arrives to give a Mass in Bicentennial Park near Silao, Mexico, on March 25, 2012.
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Pope Benedict XVI flanked by personal secretary Archbishop Georg Gaenswein during a Mass to mark the 900th anniversary of the Order of the Knights of Malta in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, on Feb. 9, 2013.
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Pope Benedict XVI opens his arms during his final general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, on Feb. 27, 2013, before retiring.
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Pope Francis, right, greets Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at the Vatican on June 30, 2015.

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