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Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus PP. XVI, Italian: BenedettoXVI,
born Joseph Alois Ratzinger on April 16, 1927 in Marktl am Inn,
Bavaria, Germany) is the 265th and reigning Pope of the Roman Catholic
Church, and as such, Sovereign of the Vatican City State.
He was elected on April 19, 2005 in a papal conclave, celebrated his
Papal Inauguration Mass on April 24, 2005, and took possession of his
cathedral, the Basilica of St. John Lateran, on May 7, 2005. Pope
Benedict XVI has both German and Vatican citizenship. He succeeded Pope
John Paul II, who died on April 2, 2005.
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