11 February 2013 22:00 | By Tom Phillips
Pope Benedict XVI: a life in pictures

1945 to 1951 - Studying for Priesthood

Pope Benedict XVI - 1945 to 1951 - Studying for Preisthood (© AP Photo KNA)
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  • Pope Benedict XVI - 1977 - Archbishop (© AP Photo Dieter Endlicher)
  • Pope Benedict XVI - 1982 - Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (© AP Photo Dieter Endlicher)
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After the war, Ratzinger - along with his brother Georg - returned to their religious studies, studying at the seminary in Traunstein, the Higher School of Philosophy and Theology of Freising, and at the University of Munich. Joseph and Georg were ordained as priests together on the same day in 1951. Above, the young Father Ratzinger celebrates Mass in the mountains of Ruhpolding, southern Germany, in 1952.

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