Former pope Benedict XVI on Saturday died at 95 years, the Vatican announced.
“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,†Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a statement.
In 2013, he became the first pontiff to resign as head of the Catholic Church since the Middle Ages.
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