List of saints canonized by Pope Benedict XVI explained

This article contains the saints canonized by Pope Benedict XVI. Pope Benedict XVI canonized 45 saints, including one equipollent canonization, during his seven-year reign as Pope from 2005 to 2013:

No.	Saint	Date of Canonisation	Place of Canonisation	Reference
1.	Felix of Nicosia	23 October 2005	St. Peter's Square	^[1]
2.	Józef Bilczewski
3.	Gaetano Catanoso
4.	Zygmunt Gorazdowski
5.	Alberto Hurtado
6.	Théodore Guérin	15 October 2006
7.	Rafael Guízar Valencia
8.	Filippo Smaldone
9.	Rose Venerini
10.	Anthony of St. Ann Galvão	11 May 2007	São Paulo, Brazil
11.	Szymon of Lipnica	3 June 2007	St. Peter's Square
12.	Charles of Mount Argus
13.	Marie-Eugénie de Jésus
14.	George Preca
15.	María Bernarda Bütler	12 October 2008
16.	Gaetano Errico
17.	Alphonsa Muttathupadathu
18.	Narcisa de Jesús
19.	Nuno Álvares Pereira	26 April 2009
20.	Geltrude Comensoli
21.	Arcangelo Tadini
22.	Bernardo Tolomei
23.	Caterina Volpicelli
24.	Rafael Arnáiz Barón	11 October 2009	St. Peter's Basilica
25.	Francisco Coll Guitart
26.	Damien De Veuster
27.	Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński
28.	Jeanne Jugan
29.	André Bessette	17 October 2010	St. Peter's Square
30.	Candida Maria of Jesus
31.	Mary MacKillop
32.	Giulia Salzano
33.	Stanisław Kazimierczyk
34.	Camilla Battista da Varano
35.	Guido Maria Conforti	23 October 2011
36.	Luigi Guanella
37.	Bonifacia Rodríguez y Castro
38.	Hildegard of Bingen	10 May 2012	Vatican City (equipollent)
39.	Jacques Berthieu	21 October 2012	St. Peter's Square
40.	Pedro Calungsod
41.	Marianne Cope
42.	Giovanni Battista Piamarta
43.	María del Monte Carmelo Sallés y Barangueras
44.	Anna Schäffer
45.	Kateri Tekakwitha

See also

• List of saints canonized by Pope Leo XIII
• List of saints canonized by Pope Pius XI
• List of saints canonized by Pope Pius XII
• List of saints canonized by Pope John XXIII
• List of saints canonized by Pope Paul VI
• List of saints canonized by Pope John Paul II
• List of saints canonized by Pope Francis
• List of saints canonized in the 21st century

Notes and References

1. https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/homilies/2005/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20051023_canonizations.html CONCLUSION OF THE 11th ORDINARY GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE SYNOD OF BISHOPS AND YEAR OF THE EUCHARIST