Pope Benedict XV
1854 CE–1922 CE · Modern · Genoa
Born Giacomo della Chiesa into Genoese nobility, Benedict XV was elected weeks after the outbreak of the First World War, which dominated his pontificate. A trained diplomat, he maintained strict Vatican neutrality, denounced the conflict as 'the suicide of civilized Europe,' and in 1917 issued a seven-point peace note that belligerents largely ignored. He devoted Church resources to relief work, prisoner exchanges, and aid to refugees and children. He completed the 1917 Code of Canon Law begun under Pius X and worked to ease anti-Modernist tensions within the Church. Often overlooked, his humanitarian diplomacy earned wide respect.
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Genoa, a port city and capital of Liguria, northwestern Italy. A major maritime republic in the Middle Ages, it was the birthplace or family seat of several popes (including the della Rovere and Cybo lines) and an important archiepiscopal see.
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- Pope Bl. Pius IX· 1792 CE–1878 CE
- John Henry Newman· 1801 CE–1890 CE
- Pope Leo XIII· 1810 CE–1903 CE
- Søren Kierkegaard· 1813 CE–1855 CE
- Vladimir Solovyov· 1853 CE–1900 CE
- Pope Pius XI· 1857 CE–1939 CE
- Sergei Bulgakov· 1871 CE–1944 CE
- Thérèse of Lisieux· 1873 CE–1897 CE
- Pope St. John XXIII· 1881 CE–1963 CE
- Pavel Florensky· 1882 CE–1937 CE
- Paul Tillich· 1886 CE–1965 CE
- Karl Barth· 1886 CE–1968 CE
- Georges Florovsky· 1893 CE–1979 CE
- Henri de Lubac· 1896 CE–1991 CE
- Pope St. Paul VI· 1897 CE–1978 CE
- C. S. Lewis· 1898 CE–1963 CE
- Karl Rahner· 1904 CE–1984 CE
- Yves Congar· 1904 CE–1995 CE
- Hans Urs von Balthasar· 1905 CE–1988 CE
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer· 1906 CE–1945 CE
- Pope John Paul I· 1912 CE–1978 CE
- Thomas Merton· 1915 CE–1968 CE
- Pope St. John Paul II· 1920 CE–2005 CE
- Alexander Schmemann· 1921 CE–1983 CE
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- Theodore Roosevelt· 1858 CE–1919 CE
- Yuan Shikai· 1859 CE–1916 CE
- Guangxu Emperor· 1871 CE–1908 CE
- Woodrow Wilson· 1856 CE–1924 CE
- Paul von Hindenburg· 1847 CE–1934 CE
- Gojong of Korea· 1852 CE–1919 CE
- Georges Clemenceau· 1841 CE–1929 CE
- Nicholas II· 1868 CE–1918 CE
- William Howard Taft· 1857 CE–1930 CE
- Mehmed VI· 1861 CE–1926 CE
- Emperor Meiji· 1852 CE–1912 CE
- Wovoka (Jack Wilson)· 1856 CE–1932 CE
- Warren G. Harding· 1865 CE–1923 CE
- Chulalongkorn (Rama V)· 1853 CE–1910 CE
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