What is the name givin to the pope at birth?

Answer 1

The pope isn't chosen at birth so the current pope was called Joseph Alois Ratzinger

When they are chosen and elected a pope is given a new name - i.e. the current pope is Pope Benedict xvi. They don't know they will be the pope when they are born

Answer 2

Answer 1: Joseph Alois Ratzinger is the name given to Pope Benedict XVI at birth.

Answer 2: Benedict XVI is no longer the Pope. The above answer was made when he was stiill Pope.

The current Pope is Francis (the first), born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on 17 December 1936. He is is the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church, elected on 13 March 2013 after Pope Benedit XVI announced his resignation on 11 February 2013, which resignation took effect on 28 February 2013. Though of Italian descent, Frances was born in Buenos Aires (in Argentina). He was ordained to the priesthood in 1969, and served as Argentina's Provincial superior of the Society of Jesus from 1973 to 1979; so he was already, then, on a fast track to high rank in the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Argentina. He became the country's Arch Bishop in 1998; then its Cardinal in 2001. He is the first Latin-American Pope.

Benedict XVI was the first Pope to resign since Pope Gregory XII in 1415, and the first to do so on his own initiative since Pope Celestine V in 1294. He now holds the title "Pope Emeritus," and lives in retirement in the newly renovated Mater Ecclesiae monastery at the Vatican.

Answer 3

Answer 1: Benedict XVI's birth name was Joseph Alois Ratzinger.

Answer 2: Benedict XVI is no longer the Pope. The above answer was made when he was still Pope.

The current Pope is Francis (the first), born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on 17 December 1936. He is is the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church, elected on 13 March 2013 after Pope Benedit XVI announced his resignation on 11 February 2013, which resignation took effect on 28 February 2013. Though of Italian descent, Frances was born in Buenos Aires (in Argentina). He was ordained to the priesthood in 1969, and served as Argentina's Provincial superior of the Society of Jesus from 1973 to 1979; so he was already, then, on a fast track to high rank in the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Argentina. He became the country's Arch Bishop in 1998; then its Cardinal in 2001. He is the first Latin-American Pope.

Benedict XVI was the first Pope to resign since Pope Gregory XII in 1415, and the first to do so on his own initiative since Pope Celestine V in 1294. He now holds the title "Pope Emeritus," and lives in retirement in the newly renovated Mater Ecclesiae monastery at the Vatican.

Answer 4

Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected Pope on March 13, 2013, and assumed the name of Pope Francis.

Answer 5

The current pope (2014) is Pope Francis who was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio.