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On 11 February 2013, Benedict XVI announced his resignation from the papacy effective 28 February 2013 at 20:00 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]
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis has no intention of resigning as he feels that his health is good enough to allow him to carry on, he says in a new book whose excerpts were published by Italy ...
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 as such remained in the office, making Pope Francis and an invalidly elected antipope. Believers of this theory are called ...
Pope Francis (Latin: Franciscus; ... Following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI on 28 February 2013, a papal conclave elected Bergoglio as his successor on 13 March.
Pope Francis, who turned 88 last month and asked an aide to read a major speech last week due to a cold, says in a new book that he feels healthy and has no plans to resign as leader of the global ...
Pope Francis has revealed in an interview published Sunday Dec. 18, 2022 that shortly after being elected pontiff in 2013 he wrote a resignation letter in case medical problems impede him from ...
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 ...
Pope Benedict XVI, who in 2013 became the first pontiff in about 600 years to resign willingly, visited L'Aquila four years before stepping down. Popes who resign are humble, Francis says in ...