Reply #39: Reuters: Cardinal Ratzinger elected Pope

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Cardinal Ratzinger elected Pope
Tue Apr 19, 2005 5:48 PM BST



By Philip Pullella and Crispian Balmer

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - German cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected to lead the Roman Catholic Church, a cardinal announced on Tuesday.

He will take the name Pope Benedict XVI as his papal name.

The election of the 265th pontiff on only the second day of a conclave in the Vatican's frescoed Sistine Chapel was signalled by white smoke from the chapel chimney and the tolling of the bells of St. Peter's Basilica.

But there were many minutes of confusion over the colour of the smoke, which initially seemed grey, before the bells began tolling to signal the successful election.



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