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
2.	Józef Bilczewski	23 October 2005	St. Peter's Square
3.	Gaetano Catanoso	23 October 2005	St. Peter's Square
4.	Zygmunt Gorazdowski	23 October 2005	St. Peter's Square	^[1]
5.	Alberto Hurtado	23 October 2005	St. Peter's Square
6.	Théodore Guérin	15 October 2006	St. Peter's Square
7.	Rafael Guízar Valencia	15 October 2006	St. Peter's Square
8.	Filippo Smaldone	15 October 2006	St. Peter's Square
9.	Rose Venerini	15 October 2006	St. Peter's Square
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	3 June 2007	St. Peter's Square
13.	Marie-Eugénie de Jésus	3 June 2007	St. Peter's Square
14.	George Preca	3 June 2007	St. Peter's Square
15.	María Bernarda Bütler	12 October 2008	St. Peter's Square
16.	Gaetano Errico	12 October 2008	St. Peter's Square
17.	Alphonsa Muttathupadathu	12 October 2008	St. Peter's Square
18.	Narcisa de Jesús	12 October 2008	St. Peter's Square
19.	Nuno Álvares Pereira	26 April 2009	St. Peter's Square
20.	Geltrude Comensoli	26 April 2009	St. Peter's Square
21.	Arcangelo Tadini	26 April 2009	St. Peter's Square
22.	Bernardo Tolomei	26 April 2009	St. Peter's Square
23.	Caterina Volpicelli	26 April 2009	St. Peter's Square
24.	Rafael Arnáiz Barón	11 October 2009	St. Peter's Basilica
25.	Francisco Coll Guitart	11 October 2009	St. Peter's Basilica
26.	Damien De Veuster	11 October 2009	St. Peter's Basilica
27.	Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński	11 October 2009	St. Peter's Basilica
28.	Jeanne Jugan	11 October 2009	St. Peter's Basilica
29.	André Bessette	17 October 2010	St. Peter's Square
30.	Candida Maria of Jesus	17 October 2010	St. Peter's Square
31.	Mary MacKillop	17 October 2010	St. Peter's Square
32.	Giulia Salzano	17 October 2010	St. Peter's Square
33.	Stanisław Kazimierczyk	17 October 2010	St. Peter's Square
34.	Camilla Battista da Varano	17 October 2010	St. Peter's Square
35.	Guido Maria Conforti	23 October 2011	St. Peter's Square
36.	Luigi Guanella	23 October 2011	St. Peter's Square
37.	Bonifacia Rodríguez y Castro	23 October 2011	St. Peter's Square
38.	Hildegard of Bingen	10 May 2012	n/a (equipollent)
39.	Jacques Berthieu	21 October 2012	St. Peter's Square
40.	Pedro Calungsod	21 October 2012	St. Peter's Square
41.	Marianne Cope	21 October 2012	St. Peter's Square
42.	Giovanni Battista Piamarta	21 October 2012	St. Peter's Square
43.	María del Monte Carmelo Sallés y Barangueras	21 October 2012	St. Peter's Square
44.	Anna Schäffer	21 October 2012	St. Peter's Square
45.	Kateri Tekakwitha	21 October 2012	St. Peter's Square

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