Cardinals created by benedict xvi biography
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Cardinals Created by Benedict XVI (2010)
1. Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B.
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former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Aquiropro hac vice Title
former Prefect of Congregation for the Causes of Saints
2. Cardinal Antonios I Naguib (Antonios Naguib) (Coptic Rite)
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former Cardinal-Patriarch
former Patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts (Egypt)
3. Cardinal Robert Sarah (79)
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Cardinal-Priest of S. Giovanni Bosco in Via Tuscolanapro hac vice Title
Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Conakry (Guinea)
Prefect emeritus of Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
4. Cardinal Francesco Monterisi (90)
Fortitudo mea Dominus
Cardinal-Priest of S. Paolo alla Regolapro hac vice Title
Archpriest emeritus of Papal Basilica of Saint Paul Outside-the-Walls
5. Cardinal Fortunato Baldelli
former Cardinal-Deacon of S. Anselmo all’Aventino
former Major Penitent
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Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) was born on 16 April 1927 in Marktl am Inn, Germany.
His father, a police officer, came from a traditional family of farmers from Lower Bavaria. He spent his adolescent years in Traunstein, a small town on the Austrian border.
It was in this context, which Pope Benedict XVI himself has described as "Mozartian", that he received his Christian, human and cultural formation.
Second World War
Joseph's days of youth were far from easy.
His faith and family upbringing prepared him for the harsh experience of the problems connected with the Nazi regime; he even remembers seeing his parish priest being beaten by Nazis before celebrating Holy Mass, and was well aware of the fiercely hostile atmosphere to the Catholic Church that existed in Germany at the time.
Towards the end of World War II, Joseph was enrolled in the auxiliary anti-aircraft service.
Priest, professor, Vatican Council
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Bishop Mario Grech – General Secretary of the Synod of Bishops
Bishop Mario Grech was born in Qala (Malta), in the Diocese of Gozo on 20 February 1957. He completed primary school, high school school in Gozo, followed by philosophical and theological studies at Gozo’s seminary. After priestly ordination on 26 May 1984, he pursued higher studies in Rome and obtained a licentiate at the Lateran University and a Doctorate in Canon Law at the Angelicum. After returning to Malta, he exercised his ministry in the Cathedral of Gozo, in the National Shrine of Tá-Pinu, and was pastor of the parish in Kercem. He then carried out the office of Judicial Vicar of the Diocese, member of Malta’s Metropolitican Tribunal, professor of Canon lag in the Seminary. He was also a member of the College of Consultors, the Presbyteral Council and other diocesan commissions. Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Bishop of Gozo on 26 November 2011 where he r