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Popes do not choose a surname when elected to the papacy.

Before elected, though, Benedict XVI's name was Joseph Ratzinger.

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Pope Benedict XVI was born Josef Alois Ratzinger.

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His given names is Josef Alois Ratzinger.

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Joseph Ratzinger

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