In 1943, at the age of 16, he was drafted into the German anti-aircraft corps as Luftwaffenhelfer (air force child soldier).
Please specify which pope. If you are referring to Pope Francis, he was selected as a cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI.
Pope Paul VI on June 27, 1977.
He was made a cardinal in 1977 by Pope Paul VI.
His Holiness, Pope Paul VI, made Josef Razinger the Cardinal Archbishop of Munich on 27 June 1977.
His Holiness Benedict XVI was, like the majority of his predecessors, elected by the college of cardinals (voting-age cardinals) in a papal conclave in 2005.
St. Benedict of Nursia was canonized in the year 1220 by Pope Honorius III.
It was not a single cardinal. 2/3 of the Cardinal Electors had to vote for him.
Because he sutdyed
He became pope because the College of Cardinals elected him as pope. It is said that Cardinal Ratzinger had been a close confident of Pope John Paul II and his personal choice to succeed him as pope.Pope Benedict was made pope, the successor of Saint Peter, just like every other pope is made pope. He was a Roman Catholic Cardinal elected by a congregation of Cardinals.
She was canonized in Rome by Pope Benedict XV on May 16, 1920.
This disgrace to the Throne of Peter was made pope through his father, Alberic III, Count of Tusculum, who obtained/bought the position for him.
Pope John Paul II visited in 1982. Pope Benedict XVI visited England in September of 2010.