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The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI took effect on 28 February 2013 at 20:00 CET, following Benedict's announcement of it on 11 February. [1] [2] [3] It made him the first pope to relinquish the office [note 1] since Gregory XII was forced to resign in 1415 [4] to end the Western Schism, and the first pope to voluntarily resign since Celestine V in 1294.
The most recent pope to resign was Benedict XVI, who vacated the Holy See on 28 February 2013, the date of his effective resignation. He was the first pope to do so since Gregory XII in 1415. Despite its common usage in discussion of papal renunciations, [ 2 ] the term abdication is not used in the official documents of the church for ...
On 11 February 2013, Benedict XVI announced his resignation from the papacy effective February, 28th, 2013 at 8:00 pm local time (19:00 UTC). [2] [3] [4] He was the first pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415, [5] and the first to do so of his own volition since Celestine V in 1294. [6] [7]
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the German theologian who will be remembered as the first pope in 600 years to resign, has died, the Vatican announced Saturday. He was 95. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File)
(Reuters) - A year after his shock resignation, Pope Emeritus Benedict has no regrets and believes history will vindicate his tumultuous and much-criticized papacy, the man closest to him told ...
Catholic church law requires a papal resignation be “freely and properly manifested” — as was the case when Benedict startled the world when he announced his resignation to a gathering of ...
On February 11, 2013, it was announced that Pope Benedict XVI [19] would resign as pope of the Catholic Church on February 28, at 8 pm Rome time (7pm GMT). [20] [21] The 85-year-old Pontiff said his strength was 'no longer adequate to continue in office due to his advanced age'. He also said: 'I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately ...
Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict meeting on 5 July 2013. Benevacantism (a portmanteau of "Benedict" and "sedevacantism" [1] [a]) is the belief that Pope Benedict XVI did not validly resign the papacy and therefore remained pope, making Pope Francis an invalidly elected antipope. Believers of this theory are called "Benevacantists". [1]