Pope Benedict XVI Biography

Benedict XVI served as pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013. He is best known for his unbending perspectives on Catholicism and subjects, for example, anti-conception medication and homosexuality.

Pope Benedict XVI about his life and history

Pope Benedict XVI, in the past Joseph Ratzinger, was conceived on April 16, 1927 in Marktl am Inn, Germany. He was appointed a cleric on June 29, 1951. His dad, a cop, originated from a conventional group of agriculturists from Lower Bavaria. 

He spent his youthful years in Traunstein, and was called into the helper hostile to flying machine administration in the most recent months of World War II. From 1946 to 1951, the year in which he was appointed a cleric and started to instruct, he contemplated rationality and religious philosophy at the University of Munich and at the higher school in Freising. In 1953, he got a doctorate in philosophy with a postulation entitled: "The People and House of God in St. Augustine's Doctrine of the Church". After four years, he qualified as a college instructor. He then taught creed and key religious philosophy at the higher school of theory and philosophy of Freising, then in Bonn from 1959 to 1969, in Münster from 1963 to 1966, and in Tubinga from 1966 to 1969. In 1969, he turned into a teacher of closed minded religious philosophy and of the historical backdrop of creed at the University of Regensburg and Vice President of the same college. 

In 1962 he was at that point understood when, at 35 years old, he turned into a consultor of the Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Joseph Frings, at the Second Vatican Council. His various productions, incorporate the 'Prologue to Christianity', an accumulation of college lessons on the calling of biblical confidence, distributed in 1968 and "Doctrine and Revelation," a collection of articles, sermons and reflections devoted to the peaceful service, distributed in 1973. 

In March 1977, Pope Paul VI named Fr. Ratzinger Archbishop of Munich and Freising and on May 28, 1977 he was blessed - the principal diocesan cleric in 80 years to assume control over the peaceful service of the vast Bavarian ward. Paul VI lifted him to the College of Cardinals in the consistory of June 27, 1977. 

On November 25, 1981, he was named by John Paul II to be Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Cardinal Ratzinger was chosen Vice Dean of the College of Cardinals on November 6, 1998. On November 30, 2002, he was chosen as Dean of the College of Cardinals. 

He served as President of the Commission for the Preparation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and following 6 years of work, he introduced the New Catechism to the Holy Father in 1992. 

Taking after the demise of John Paul II on April 2, 2005, and his burial service on April 8, Cardinal Ratzinger directed the conference to choose another pope as senior member of the College of Cardinals. The conference opened on April 18 and Cardinal Ratzinger was chosen as the 265th Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church on April 19, 2005. He picked the name "Benedict" and got to be Pope Benedict XVI.