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 Pope Benedict XVI, 264th Successor of Saint Peter
On 19 April 2005, the Cardinals gathered in Conclave elected Pope Benedict XVI, the successor to John Paul II, who had passed away two weeks earlier.Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, was born at Marktl am Inn, Diocese of Passau (Germany) on 16 April 1927. He received his priestly ordination on 29 June 1951. On 25 March 1977 Pope Paul VI named him Archbishop of Munich and Freising and, a few months later, made him a Cardinal.
John Paul II named him Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on 25 November 1981. He was Prefect of that Congregation until he was elected Pope in 2005.
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 The Holy See (Latin: Sancta Sedes, lit. "holy seat") is the Episcopal see of Rome. The incumbent and local ordinary of the Diocese of Rome is the Bishop of Rome, more commonly referred to as the Pope.
The term Holy See, as used in Canon law, also refers to the Pope and the Roman Curia—in effect, the central government of the Catholic Church—and is the sense more widely used today.
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