The Next Edition
  • Home
  • About Us
  • News
  • Featured
  • Investigations
  • Foreign
  • Special Reports
  • Entertainment
  • Interviews
  • Advert Rate
No Result
View All Result
The Next Edition
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • About Us
  • News
  • Featured
  • Investigations
  • Foreign
  • Special Reports
  • Entertainment
  • Interviews
  • Advert Rate
Home Breaking News

Breaking: Former Pope Benedict XVI Dies At 95

Next Edition by Next Edition
December 31, 2022
in Breaking News
Breaking: Former Pope Benedict XVI Dies At 95
0
SHARES
0
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Whatsapp

Former Pope Benedict XVI has died at his Vatican residence, aged 95, almost a decade after he stood down because of ailing health.

He led the Catholic Church for less than eight years until, in 2013, he became the first Pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415.

You might also like

BREAKING: Tinubu Confers National Honours on Kudirat Abiola, Humphrey Nwosu, Other Nigerians

JUST IN: Markets, Schools, Offices Shut In Imo Over Sit-At-Home Order

Breaking: JAMB Begins Rescheduling Of Exam For 379,997 Affected Candidates

Benedict spent his final years at the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery within the walls of the Vatican.

This is contained in a statement from the nigeriacatholicnetwork.com via Vatican News, made available through Padre Mike Umoh, the National Director of Social Communications in Abuja on Saturday.

His successor, Pope Francis said he had visited him there frequently.

READ ALSO: Akpabio At Akwa Ibom State APC Stakeholders Meeting

The Vatican said in a statement: “With sorrow I inform you that the Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, passed away today at 9:34 in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican.

“Further information will be provided as soon as possible.”

The Vatican said the body of the Pope Emeritus would be placed in St. Peter’s Basilica from Monday for “the greeting of the faithful”.

”Plans for Pope Benedict’s funeral will be announced in the next few hours,” the Vatican said.

Although the former pontiff had been ill for some time, the Holy See said there had seen an aggravation in his condition because of advancing age.

On Wednesday, Pope Francis appealed to his final audience of the year at the Vatican to “pray a special prayer for Pope Emeritus Benedict”, whom he said was very ill.

Born Joseph Ratzinger in Germany, Benedict was 78 when in 2005 he became one of the oldest popes ever elected.

For much of his papacy, the Catholic Church faced allegations, legal claims and official reports into decades of child abuse by priests.

Earlier this year the former Pope acknowledged that errors had been made in the handling of abuse cases while he was archbishop of Munich between 1977 and 1982.

Tags: CatholicdeadPope FrancisRomanianRome
Next Edition

Next Edition

Recommended For You

BREAKING: Tinubu Writes Senate On Plan To Deploy Troops To Niger Republic

BREAKING: Tinubu Confers National Honours on Kudirat Abiola, Humphrey Nwosu, Other Nigerians

President Bola Tinubu has bestowed posthumous national honours on late Kudirat Abiola, wife of the presumed winner of the presidential election in 1993, chief MKO Abiola. Tinubu also...

Police Burst Kidnappers Den In Imo, Arrests Five Suspects

JUST IN: Markets, Schools, Offices Shut In Imo Over Sit-At-Home Order

Markets, schools and offices shut down on Friday based on the sit-at-home order by a separatist group, the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB)...

COVID-19: Visit Our Offices Only On Appointment – JAMB Tells Candidates

Breaking: JAMB Begins Rescheduling Of Exam For 379,997 Affected Candidates

The 379,997 candidates affected by the error of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) have been rescheduled for another Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination. The rescheduling began...

COVID-19: Visit Our Offices Only On Appointment – JAMB Tells Candidates

JUST IN: JAMB Admits to Errors in 2025 UTME, Reschedules Exam For 379,997 Candidates

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has acknowledged flaws in the conduct of the just concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Addressing newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday,...

Next Post
Sanwo-Olu’s Wife Welcomes First Babies Of 2023 At LASUTH

Sanwo-Olu’s Wife Welcomes First Babies Of 2023 At LASUTH




Related News

Manchester City’s Punchy One-two Sends Palace Reeling

Manchester City’s Punchy One-two Sends Palace Reeling

Tinubu Speaks On Plots Against Oshiomhole, Crisis Rocking APC

#EndSARS: Tinubu Finally Speaks, Pleads With Protesters To Leave The Streets

I Was Promised N500,000 To Drive Murdered Victim’s Car – Teenage Suspect




The Next Edition

Office Address

3B, Agboola Aina street, Off Toyin Street,
Ikeja, Lagos.

Quick Contact Details

Phone:
08033018430
Whatsapp:
08051679910

Email:
[email protected]
[email protected]

Categories

  • Aviation
  • Beauty
  • Breaking News
  • Business
  • Columnists
  • Editorial
  • Entertainment
  • Fashion
  • Featured
  • Football
  • Foreign
  • Headline News
  • Home & Garden
  • Interviews
  • Investigations
  • North Central
  • North East
  • North West
  • Opinion
  • Parenting
  • Politics
  • Relationships
  • South East
  • South West
  • South-South
  • Special Reports
  • Sports
  • Top News
  • Vox Pops

© Next Edition Business Development Limited

  • About Us
  • Advert Rate
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • About Us
  • News
  • Featured
  • Investigations
  • Foreign
  • Special Reports
  • Entertainment
  • Interviews
  • Advert Rate

© Next Edition Business Development Limited