VATICAN Town: Former Pope Benedict died on Saturday (Dec 31) in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican, a spokesman for the Holy See said.
He was 95.
“With sorrow I notify you that the Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, handed away now at 9.34am in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican. Further data will be delivered as quickly as doable,” the spokesman mentioned in a penned statement.
The German, who in 2013 was the very first pope because the Middle Ages to resign as head of the throughout the world Catholic Church, had turn out to be significantly frail about the many years.
He moved out of the papal palace and into a former convent within the Vatican when he retired.