Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI died aged 95 at 8:34am (UK time) on Saturday, 31 December 2022.
Pope Benedict was elected to the Papal Office on 19th April 2005, following the death of Pope St John Paul II. He served as Supreme Pontiff for 8 years, before resigning on 28th February 2013. He visited the United Kingdom in September 2010, and prayed before the Statue of Our Lady of the Taper, from the National Welsh Marian Shrine, at a Mass at Westminster Cathedral.
On hearing of the news of his death, Archbishop Mark said: “Since he was a young man, Pope Benedict’s encounter with Jesus Christ gave the whole of his life a new horizon and a definitive direction. We give thanks to God for his life of witness to the truth of the Gospel. May he now enjoy an eternal face to face with the Lord whom he served so faithfully.” Archbishop Mark also spoke to the BBC of the late Pope as “a person of immense graciousness and gentleness”.
May he rest in peace and rise in glory.



