Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus PP. XVI; Italian: Benedetto XVI; German: Benedikt XVI.; born Joseph Alois Ratzinger on 16 April 1927) is the 265th and reigning Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church and, as such, Sovereign of the Vatican City State. He was elected on 19 April 2005 in a papal conclave, celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on 24 April 2005, and took possession of his cathedral, the Basilica of St. John Lateran, on 7 May 2005. Pope Benedict XVI has both German and Vatican citizenship. He succeeded Pope John Paul II.

Pope Benedict XVI was born Joseph Alois Ratzinger in 1927.

Pope Benedict XVI was elected pope at the age of 78. He is the oldest person to have been elected pope since Clement XII in 1730.

The Pope has doctorate degrees in divinity and theology and he was a university professor.

Along with his native German, Benedict speaks fluent Italian, French, English, Spanish and Latin. He can read ancient Greek and biblical Hebrew.

Benedict plays the piano and has a preference for Mozart and Beethoven.

Pope Benedict XVI is the first pope to own an iPod.
Pope Benedict XVI was born Joseph Alois Ratzinger in 1927. Pope Benedict XVI was elected pope at the age of 78. He is the oldest person to have been elected pope since Clement XII in 1730. The Pope has doctorate degrees in divinity and theology and he was a university professor. Along with his native German, Benedict speaks fluent Italian, French, English, Spanish and Latin. He can read ancient Greek and biblical Hebrew. Benedict plays the piano and has a preference for Mozart and Beethoven. Pope Benedict XVI is the first pope to own an iPod.
Pope Benedict XVI was born Joseph Alois Ratzinger in 1927 and recently turned 81. Pope Benedict XVI was elected pope at the age of 78. He is the oldest person to have been elected pope since Clement XII in 1730. The Pope has doctorate degrees in divinity and theology and he was a university professor. Along with his native German, Benedict speaks fluent Italian, French, English, Spanish and Latin. He can read ancient Greek and biblical Hebrew. Benedict plays the piano and has a preference for Mozart and Beethoven. Pope Benedict XVI is the first pope to own an iPod.

Underneath St. Peter's Basilica with all the other Popes. It is almost certain he will be given a full papal funeral in the traditional manner.


Additional Information:
All the popes are not buried in St. Peter's Basilica. Papal tombs are also located in other major churches of Rome (especially Basilica of St. John Lateran

, Santa Maria sopra Minerva and Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore

), or other Cathedrals and churches of Italy, France, and Germany. The locations of less than half of the tombs of former popes is even known.

Benedict can dictate where his tomb is to be placed and we may not know his choice until he passes away. He could even choose to be buried in his native Germany.

For more information on the sites of papal tombs, see the related link.

Answer 1: Pope Benedict XVI was born Joseph Alois Ratzinger in 1927.

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, Francis 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.

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The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 1994

882 The Pope, Bishop of Rome and Peter's successor, "is the perpetual and visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful." (Lumen Gentium 23) "For the Roman Pontiff, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, and as pastor of the entire Church has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercises unhindered." (Lumen Gentium 22; cf. Christus Dominus 2,9)

He has written three Encyclicals.

• Caritas in veritate (June 29, 2009)

  [Byelorussian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Spe salvi (November 30, 2007)

  [Byelorussian, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Deus caritas est (December 25, 2005)

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Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Alois Ratzinger) was born on April 16, 1927 at Southeastern German state of Bavaria. He is the first German pope since Victor II, and the first noted scholar in Theology to be elected pope since Benedict XIV.

Pope Benedict XVI, was born at Marktl Bavaria, Diocese of Passau (Germany) on April 16, 1927.

Schulstraße 11, at 8:30 in the morning in his parents' home in Bavaria, Germany.