# Pope Benedict XV

> He steered the Vatican through the First World War by declaring neutrality and proposing peace - both sides turned him down. When diplomacy failed, he shifted to prisoners, wounded soldiers, and food relief across a starving continent.

*Pope of the Catholic Church from 1914 to 1922*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/pope-benedict-xv

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Religious Figure
- **Category:** Religious Figures
- **Country:** Italy
- **Born:** 1854-11-21
- **Died:** 1922-01-22
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Giacomo della Chiesa was elected pope in 1914 at 59, just as Europe tore itself apart. He called the war "the suicide of civilized Europe" and tried twice to broker peace in 1916 and 1917; German Protestants dismissed any "Papal Peace" as an insult, and Clemenceau thought the effort anti-French. Benedict XV turned to humanitarian work instead - prisoner exchanges, medical evacuations, food shipments - and spent the postwar years mending ties with France and Italy, which began letting Catholic politicians back into national life. In 1917 he promulgated the new Code of Canon Law, the work he'd prepared with Eugenio Pacelli and Pietro Gasparri under his predecessor, and revitalized global missions in Maximum illud. His final months were consumed by famine and the persecution of Catholics in Soviet Russia. He died of pneumonia on 22 January 1922, seven years into the job, and was buried beneath Saint Peter's.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 73.2 / 100
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- **Historical depth:** 25.3 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 79.3 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **WEBSITE**: https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xv/it.html

## Topics
#Religious Figures, #Religious Figure, #Religion, #19th Century

## Sources
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- [Papa Bento XV](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_Bento_XV)
- [Paus Benedictus XV](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paus_Benedictus_XV)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XV)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4448)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Pope%20Benedict%20XV)
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- [Бенедикт XV](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82_XV)
- [Benead XV](https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benead_XV)
- [Benet XV](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benet_XV)
- [Gáu-huòng Benedictus 15-sié](https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A1u-hu%C3%B2ng_Benedictus_15-si%C3%A9)
- [Benedikt XV.](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedikt_XV.)
- [Pab Bened XV](https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pab_Bened_XV)
- [Pave Benedikt 15.](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pave_Benedikt_15.)
- [Benedikt XV.](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedikt_XV.)
- [Benedictus XV](https://diq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedictus_XV)
- [Benedikt XV.](https://dsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedikt_XV.)
- [Πάπας Βενέδικτος ΙΕ΄](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%AC%CF%80%CE%B1%CF%82_%CE%92%CE%B5%CE%BD%CE%AD%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%99%CE%95%CE%84)
- [Wikiquote](https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benedikt_XV.)
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- [Wikiquote](https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Papa_Benedetto_XV)
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