Indications of Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI
Collins has suggested that the elevation of Pope Benedict XVI's personal assistant, Georg Gänswein, to Archbishop in early December 2012 (he was ordained as Bishop on 6 January 2013) was an indication of the impending resignation of Benedict XVI. Such elevations of the Pope's Personal Secretary have, previously, normally occurred only shortly before the death of a Pope, but while the Pope is still lucid.
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