December 31, 2022, the AFP news agency reported, citing the announcement of Vatican office That Former Pope Benedict XVI who resigned in 2013, the first since the Middle Ages to step down as head of the Catholic Church He passed away on Saturday 31 December 2022 at the age of 95.
Statement by the Vatican spokesman “It is with regret that I inform you that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI died today at 9:34 am at the Mater Ecclesiae in the Vatican”.
For former pope Benedict XVI, he was the first pope to abdicate in 600 years.
However, foreign media reported that Former Pope Benedict XVI dies at his home in Vatican City He was 95 years old, almost a decade after his illness.
Former Pope Benedict XVI or Pope Benedict XVI led the Catholic Church for over 8 years until 2015 and isPopeThe first to leave the last From the resignation of Pope Gregory XII in 1415 (1958)
Pope BenedictHe spends his last years at the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery within the Vatican walls.
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