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Pope Benedict XVI was inaugurated on April 24, 2005 and hundreds of thousands of people gathered near the Vatican to hear him deliver his first mass as Pope.
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- Pope Benedict XVI
Benedict XVI (; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger on 16 April 1927) is Pope Emeritus of the Catholic Church, having served as Pope from 2005 to 2013. In that position, he was both the leader of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State.
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