Benedict XVI

Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger · 19 Apr 2005 – 28 Feb 2013 · 8 yrs · resigned

Quit. The first pope to resign in nearly six hundred years.

Did

Wrote three encyclicals and a trilogy on Jesus while in office.
Removed abusers from the priesthood at a scale his predecessor had not.

Didn't

Finish: resigned in February 2013 citing strength of mind and body, and lived in a monastery in the Vatican gardens for nine more years.

From the record

Pope Benedict XVI was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City from 2005 until his resignation in 2013. Following his resignation, he chose to be known as "pope emeritus", a title he held until his death on 31 December 2022. In addition to this, he was an important philosopher and theologian of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

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