Joseph Ratzinger As Prefect Of The Congregation For The Doctrine Of The Faith
Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, was from 25 November 1981 Cardinal-Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly known as the Holy Office, and, especially in the mid-2nd millennium, as the Roman Inquisition. He was named to that post by Pope John Paul II.
Archbishop of Munich-Freising since 1977, and a cardinal since the same year, he resigned the post of archbishop in early 1982, in light of his new duties as Prefect. (He would be promoted within the College of Cardinals to become Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri-Segni in 1993, and became the College's vice-dean in 1998 and dean in 2002.)
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