Awards, honors and memberships of Benedict XVI.

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This list contains the memberships and honors of Pope Benedict XVI. (Bourgeois Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger; born April 16, 1927 in Marktl).

Memberships

Full member

Honorary member

Corresponding member

  • 1966 Rheinisch-Westphalian Academy of Sciences

Associate member

Awards

Honors

Honorary doctorates

Honorary citizenship

  • 1987 Pentling parish near Regensburg , Benedict XVI. still has his (German) main residence here.
  • 1997 Marktl , the birthplace of Benedict XVI.
  • 2005 City of Traunstein , in which Benedikt XVI. attended the St. Michael school and study seminar
  • 2006 City of Altötting , with the Marian shrine of the district and pilgrimage town of Altötting, Pope Benedict XVI. closely connected throughout life
  • 2006 City of Regensburg , where Benedict XVI. from 1969 to 1977 worked as a full professor, later as an honorary professor
  • 2006 parish Aschau am Inn , where he started school and for the first time St. Received the Eucharist.
  • 2007 City of Tittmoning , where he spent part of his childhood.
  • 2008 City of Brixen , where he spent his holidays several times as a cardinal and as Pope in 2008.
  • 2009 City of Mariazell , whose pilgrimage church he visited in 2007 as Pope
  • 2009 Introd municipality in the Aosta Valley , where he spent part of his summer vacation in 2005, 2006 and 2009
  • 2010 City of Freising , where he studied, was ordained a priest in 1951, where he was a lecturer at the Philosophical-Theological University from 1954 to 1957 and served as Archbishop of Munich and Freising from 1977 to 1982
  • 2011 Municipality of Naz-Sciaves in South Tyrol . Benedikt's grandmother Maria Tauber-Peintner as well as great-grandmother Elisabeth Maria Tauber come from Natz-Schabs.
  • 2018 Community of Surberg , in whose district Hufschlag Joseph Ratzinger grew up from 1937.

Namesake

  • Since 2000, an asteroid discovered in 1990 has been named after Joseph Ratzinger, after he opened the Vatican archives for science as a cardinal . The asteroid Ratzinger is one of the innumerable mini planets orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter .

In addition to those mentioned in the main article, according to Benedict XVI. named foundations and museums that deal directly with his life and work, the following institutions were named after him:

Others

On the 80th birthday of Pope Benedict XVI. The Federal Republic of Germany made - for the first time since reunification - an exception to the rule that, with the exception of the head of state, no living personalities are depicted on postage stamps, and in April 2007 issued a special stamp with his image and coat of arms.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honorary Members. on: mmc-regensburg.de
  2. ^ The honorary members of the Marian Men's Congregation of the Annunciation at the Bürgersaal in Munich ( Memento of December 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 7, 2012.
  3. ^ Tegernsee Mountain Rifle Company. Retrieved March 13, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Award of the Golden Ring of Honor of the Traunstein District to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. ( Memento from August 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) at: traunstein.com (PDF; 33.5 kB)