Benedict Explained
Benedict may refer to:
People
Names
Religious figures
- Pope Benedict I (died 579), head of the Catholic Church from 2 June 575 to his death in 579
- Pope Benedict II (635–685), also a saint
- Pope Benedict III (died 858), head of the Catholic Church from 29 September 855 to his death in 858
- Pope Benedict IV (died 903), head of the Catholic Church from 1 February 900 to his death in 903
- Pope Benedict V (died 965), head of the Catholic Church from 22 May to 23 June 964, in opposition to Pope Leo VIII
- Pope Benedict VI (died 974), head of the Catholic Church from 19 January 973 to his death in 974
- Pope Benedict VII (died 983), head of the Catholic Church from October 974 to his death in 983
- Pope Benedict VIII (died 1024), head of the Catholic Church from 18 May 1012 to his death in 1024
- Pope Benedict IX (c. 1010–1056), in Rome, was the head of the Catholic Church on three occasions between October 1032 and July 1048
- Pope Benedict XI (1240–1304), head of the Catholic Church from 22 October 1303 to his death in 1304
- Pope Benedict XII (c. 1280–1342), head of the Catholic Church from 20 December 1334 to his death in 1342. He was the third Avignon Pope
- Pope Benedict XIII (1649–1730), later Friar Vincenzo Maria Orsini, O.P., was the head of the Catholic Church from 29 May 1724 to his death in 1730
- Pope Benedict XIV (1675–1758), head of the Catholic Church from 17 August 1740 to his death in 1758
- Pope Benedict XV (1854–1922), head of the Catholic Church from 3 September 1914 to his death in 1922
- Pope Benedict XVI (1927–2022), head of the Catholic Church from 19 April 2005 until his resignation in 2013
- Antipope Benedict X (c. 1000–c. 1070), son of Guido (the youngest son of Alberic III, Count of Tusculum), a brother of the notorious Pope Benedict IX (deposed in 1048), a member of the dominant political dynasty in the region at that time
- Antipope Benedict XIII (1328–1423), known as el Papa Luna in Spanish, was an Aragonese nobleman, who is officially considered by the Catholic Church to be an antipope
- Antipope Benedict XIV, the name used by two closely related minor antipopes of the 15th century
Places
- Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, an area in Los Angeles County, California
- Benedict (crater), a lunar crater
- Benedict Fjord, Greenland
- Benedict Glacier, Canada
- Benedict, Georgia, U.S.
- Benedict, Kansas, U.S.
- Benedict, Maryland, U.S.
- Benedict, Minnesota, U.S.
- Benedict, Nebraska, U.S.
- Benedict, North Dakota, U.S.
- Benedikt, Slovenia, Slovenia
Other uses
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