Pope Benedict will resign on February 28, his spokesman Father Federico Lombardi told CNN today. Lombardi did not give a reason for the resignation.
Benedict, the 265th pope, is the sixth German to serve as pope and the first since the 11th century. He has led the church during a time in which the church is declining in his native Europe but expanding in Africa and Latin America.
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