Ratzinger is elected as new pope

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Series Details 19.4.05
Publication Date 19/04/2005
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Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger from Germany has been elected as the pope - the head of the world's 1.1 billion Roman Catholics, on the 19 April 2005. He will take the name Pope Benedict XVI.
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The Vatican: Vacancy of the Apostolic See, 2005 http://www.vatican.va/gpII/documents/index_en.htm
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