{"id":45725,"date":"2021-01-21T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2021\/01\/21\/this-friday-pope-francis-pontificate-will-surpass-benedict-xvis-in-duration\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T09:41:00","slug":"this-friday-pope-francis-pontificate-will-surpass-benedict-xvis-in-duration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2021\/01\/21\/this-friday-pope-francis-pontificate-will-surpass-benedict-xvis-in-duration\/","title":{"rendered":"This Friday Pope Francis' pontificate will surpass Benedict XVI's in duration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benedict XVI was elected pope in the evening on April 19, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>He was elected 17 days after John Paul II's death, and his pontificate lasted seven years, 10 months and nine days. These were the final images of his papacy: Castel Gandolfo. Feb. 28, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Benedict XVI stepped down from the papacy at 8 p.m. In that moment, the Swiss Grds left their posts because there was no pontiff to protect. It was the beginning of a sede vacante period.<\/p>\n<p>Almost two weeks later, on March 13, Jorge Bergoglio looked out from the balcony on St. Peter's facade as the new pope.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Jan. 22, at 8 p.m., Pope Francis will begin day 2,873 of his pontificate, surpassing the duration of Benedict's despite having predicted a short papacy.<\/p>\n<p>After this milestone, the next important date will be March 13, which will mark eight years of Pope Francis' pontificate.<\/p>\n<p>Javier Romero<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 21 2021. Benedict XVI was pope for seven years, 10 months and nine days, a total of 2,872 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4mxd4BFJjiI","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bbenedictosuperaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bbenedictosuperaint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}