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Benedict XVI
Benedictus XVI la
265 th pope of the Catholic Church (2005–2013)
- Child of Joseph Ratzinger, Sr. and Maria Peintner
- Dated 16 April 1927 CE – 31 December 2022 CE
Pope
cardinal
cardinal priest
Offices on record
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Belonged to
Offices held 9
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- 24 March 1977 CE – 15 February 1982 CE Roman Catholic Archbishop of Munich and Freising Has references
- 25 November 1981 CE – 13 May 2005 CE prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
- 30 November 2002 CE – 19 April 2005 CE cardinal-bishop of Ostia Succeeded Bernardin Gantin · Succeeded by Angelo Sodano Has references
- 27 November 2002 CE – 19 April 2005 CE Dean of the College of Cardinals Succeeded Bernardin Gantin · Succeeded by Angelo Sodano
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19 April 2005 CE – 28 February 2013 CE Pope Number 265 in the sequence Succeeded John Paul II · Succeeded by Pope Francis Has references
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Family
The family of Benedict XVI
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 4
Family 4
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
Benedict XVI 265 th pope of the Catholic Church (2005–2013) Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
History
Recorded events
What Benedict XVI’s own record names in its history, in the order of the dates on the statements.
What this means
Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began. Each date is the one on the statement itself; an event with none is named after the line. It does not imply that these are all the events in its history, or that Wikidata ranks the events by importance.
- 29 October 1950 CE Diaconal ordination ↗
- 29 June 1951 CE Priestly ordination in the Roman rite ↗
- 27 June 1977 CE Cardinalate creation ↗
- 28 May 1977 CE Episcopal consecration in the Roman rite ↗
- 31 December 2022 CE – 5 January 2023 CE Death and funeral of Benedict XVI ↗
Also recorded, with no date on the statement
Connections
How Benedict XVI connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Veneration 1
What this means
A figure is venerated somewhere or by someone. Not a claim about how many people did, or when they stopped.
Does not imply recognition by any other church or tradition · a judgement about the historicity of the life · the same status in every branch of the church that confers it
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
22 statements on this record
- 12 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 10 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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