Short Biography of the Pope Benedict XVI
Born, Joseph Aloysius Ratzinger, on 1927, in Marktl am Inn, Germany. From 1946 to 1951, he was ordained a priest and began to teach. He studied philosophy and theology at the University of Munich and at the higher school of philosophy and theology of Freising. In 1953, he obtained a doctorate in theology with a thesis entitled: "The People and House of God in St. Augustine's Doctrine of the Church." Four years later, he qualified as a university teacher with a work on St. Bonaventure's theology of history.
After a period of teaching dogma and fundamental theology at the higher school of philosophy and theology of Freising, he went on to teach in 
Bonn from 1959 to 1969, in Munster from 1963 to 1966, and in Tubinga from 1966 to 1969. In that year he was appointed professor of dogmatic theology and of the history of dogma at the University of Regensburg and vice president of the same university. In 1962, he made a noteworthy contribution to the work of Vatican Council II as theological consultant to Cardinal Joseph Frings, archbishop of Cologne.
In 24 March 1977, Paul VI appointed him archbishop of Munich and Freising, making him a cardinal on 27 June 1977. In 1981 he was nominated by John Paul II as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Subsequently he also became president of the Pontifical Biblical Commission and of the Pontifical International Theological Commission, and dean of the College of Cardinals. He was elected as Pope on 19 April 2005, the second day of the conclave.
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