31st December 2022
(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 14, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI celebrates mass on Mount Precipice, just outside the city of Nazareth, the boyhood town of Jesus that is now an Arab-Israeli city. – Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, a German theologian whose 2013 resignation took the world by surprise, died on December 31, 2022, at age of 95, the Vatican announced. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)
Former pope Benedict XVI, who in 2013 became the first pontiff to resign as head of the Catholic Church since the Middle Ages, died on Saturday aged 95, the Vatican announced.
“With sorrow I inform you that the Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, passed away today at 9:34 in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican,” Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a statement.
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