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Photos: Pope Benedict through the years
Images of Pope Benedict XVI through the years. 
 
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(German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, right, holds an unidentified document, as the mayor of the southern German town of Marktl, Hubert Gschwendtner looks on in Marktl, the hometown of Ratzinger, July 13, 1997. In background the honory citizen plaque at Ratingers birth place. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, a longtime guardian of doctrinal orthodoxy, was elected the new pope Tuesday, April 19, 2005 evening in the first conclave of the new millennium. He chose the name Pope Benedict XVI. (AP Photo/Gemein)
 
 
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