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Images: Ratzinger becomes Pope Benedict XVI

POSTED: 10:00 PM MST Feb 10, 2013

Choosing the name Benedict XVI, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected pope on April 19, 2005.

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On the first conclave of the new millennium, white smoke billows from the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel.

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Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd at St. Peter's Square.

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