Pope Benedict XVI
Head of the Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013
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| January 31 2023 | Vatican City released a commemorative stamp to honor the memory of Pope Benedict XVI following his death. |
| January 8 2023 | Benedict XVI's tomb underneath St. Peter's Basilica was opened to public visits after his burial in a private ceremony in the crypt where Pope John Paul II was previously entombed. |
| January 5 2023 | Funeral of Pope Benedict XVI presided over by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square, attended by around 50,000 people. |
| January 4 2023 | On the evening of this day, Benedict's face was covered with a white veil. His pallium, commemorative coins and medals from his papal reign, and a text summarizing his life and pontificate were placed in his coffin before it was closed. |
| January 2 2023 | Benedict XVI's body began lying in state in St. Peter's Basilica, with approximately 195,000 mourners paying their respects over the next two days. |
| January 1 2023 | During Lula's inauguration, the Brazilian National Congress observed a minute of silence in memory of Pope Benedict XVI. |
| January 1 2023 | Pope Benedict XVI's body was laid in the chapel at the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery, where he was clothed in traditional red vestments for papal funerals. He was not wearing the pallium or holding the ferula, as he was no longer pope. |
| December 31 2022 | President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva offered condolences and remembered Pope Benedict XVI's 2007 pastoral visit to Brazil. |
| December 31 2022 | Vice-President Mourão signed a decree extending the mourning period for Pope Benedict XVI while Acting President. |
| December 31 2022 | Pope Benedict XVI died at 09:34 Central European Time at the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in Vatican City at the age of 95. |
| December 30 2022 | Benedict participated in the celebration of Mass in his room. His condition was reported as stable. A special Mass was celebrated for him at the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome. |
| December 29 2022 | Brazilian Federal Government initially decreed a period of mourning for two significant deaths. |
| December 29 2022 | Matteo Bruni reported that Benedict's condition remained grave, but he was 'absolutely lucid and alert'. |
| December 28 2022 | Pope Francis announced during his weekly general audience that Pope Benedict XVI was 'very sick'. Benedict received the Anointing of the Sick, and Pope Francis visited him afterwards. |
| December 2 2020 | Cardinal Mario Grech reported Benedict was experiencing serious difficulties speaking, with the Lord having 'taken away his speech'. |
| September 4 2020 | Benedict became the longest-lived pope, surpassing Pope Leo XIII who died in 1903 at age 93. |
| August 3 2020 | Benedict's aides disclosed he was experiencing inflammation of the trigeminal nerve following a visit by journalist Peter Seewald on 1 August. |
| July 1 2020 | Benedict's brother Georg Ratzinger died shortly after Benedict's visit in June. |
| June 2020 | Benedict visited his ailing brother Georg Ratzinger in Bavaria before Georg's death on 1 July. |
| October 2017 | A photograph revealed Benedict with a black eye after developing a hematoma from slipping at his residence. |
| February 28 2013 | Pope Benedict XVI stepped down as pope at 20:00 (CET), marking the first papal renunciation in almost 600 years, citing declining health. |
| 2012 | At least 20 clergy and several hundred parishioners from the Church of England were expected to join the Catholic ordinariate. |
| January 2012 | An Anglican ordinariate was launched in the United States, with over 1,300 Anglicans, including 100 priests, applying to join. |
| 2011 | Approximately 60 clergy and 1,000 lay people from the Church of England left to join the Catholic ordinariate. |
| 2011 | Pope Benedict XVI published the book 'Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week', exonerating Jews from historical accusations of responsibility for Jesus Christ's death. He argued that the Temple authorities, not all Jews, were the 'real group of accusers', and emphasized Jesus' death as an act of salvation rather than punishment. |
| 2010 | Pope Benedict XVI planned to visit the Great Synagogue of Rome as part of the Day of Judaism, continuing efforts to strengthen relations between the Catholic Church and the Jewish community. |
| October 2010 | Several Anglican bishops, including John Broadhurst, announced plans to become Roman Catholics under the new ordinariate rules. |
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