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There is only one pope named Benedict who has been declared a saint and that is Pope Saint Benedict II who died in the year 685. There was no canonization process in place at the time so he would have been declared a saint by an early Church bishop at the request of the local Church.

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St. Benedict was officially recognized (canonized) as a saint in the year 1220 by Pope Honorius III

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