What is Death and funeral of Pope Benedict XVI?
[[File:Corpo de Bento XVI em câmara ardente.(2).png|thumb|right|250px|The [[corpse]] of [[Pope Benedict XVI]] [[lying in state]] on 2 January 2023]] On 31 December 2022, at 09:34 [[Central European Time]] ([[UTC+01:00|UTC+1]]), [[Pope Benedict XVI]] died at the [[Mater Ecclesiae Monastery]] in [[Vatican City]] at the age of 95.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Winfield |first=Nicole |date=31 December 2022 |title=Benedict XVI, first pope to resign in 600 years, dies at 95 |url=https://apnews.com/article/pope-benedict-xvi-dead-9d486fd9b12eab1177b9eb8ab7be22f4 |access-date=31 December 2022 |work=Associated Press News |language=en}}</ref> He had been [[pope emeritus]] since [[Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI|his resignation]] as the leader of the [[Catholic Church]] in 2013.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Guy |first=Jack |date=31 December 2022 |title=Former Pope Benedict XVI dies age 95 |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/31/europe/pope-benedict-xvi-death-intl/index.html |access-date=31 December 2022 |publisher=CNN |language=en}}</ref> Days before his death, [[Pope Francis]] asked for prayers when he announced that Benedict was in bad health.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pullella |first=Philip |date=31 December 2022 |title=Former Pope Benedict, hero to Catholic conservatives, dies |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/former-pope-benedict-has-died-spokesman-2022-12-31/ |access-date=31 December 2022}}</ref> His death ended a nine-year period during which a current pope and a retired pope both lived within Vatican City.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sherwood |first=Harriet |date=31 December 2022 |title=Former pope Benedict XVI dies aged 95 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/31/former-pope-benedict-xvi-dies-aged-95 |access-date=31 December 2022 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Harlan |first1=Chico |last2=Pitrelli |first2=Stefano |title=Benedict's funeral to bring 'two popes' era to a complicated close |language=en-US |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world