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With the cuppolas of Munich's cathedral in rear, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger says farewell to the Bavarian believers in the Munich downtown in this Feb. 28, 1982 photo. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, a longtime guardian of doctrinal orthodoxy, was elected the new pope Tuesday, April 19, 2005 in the first conclave of the new millennium. He chose the name Pope Benedict XVI. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Diether Endlicher)