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Highlights from the life of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

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Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the first pontiff in 600 years to resign from the job, had died aged 95.

Benedict stunned the Catholic world on 11 February 2013, when he announced he no longer had the strength to run the 1.2 billion-strong church he had steered for eight years through scandal and indifference.

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