The other Popes Benedict

When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope in 2005, he became the 16th pope to take the name “Benedict.” Well, kind of.

When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope in 2005, he took the name “Benedict.” It was the 16th time a pope had taken this name.

Well, kind of.

See, about 1,000 years earlier, there was Pope Benedict X, who was actually an antipope, although by the time he was determined to be an antipope, he was already established in the numbering of Benedicts. So…