Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has died aged 95…

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Vigevano, Italy - 21 April, 2007: Pope Joseph Benedict XVI presides over an open-air mass in Piazza Ducale, The Pontiff is visiting the northern Italian town of Vigevano.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has died, aged 95.

Benedict held the papacy between 2005-13 before resigning, the first pope in six centuries to do so.

Regarded as an intellectual and a doctrinal conservative, Benedict could be polarising. He also has been criticised for his mishandling of clerical sexual abuse scandals.

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