List of people beatified by Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI beatified 871 people. The names listed below are from the Vatican website and are listed by year, then date. The locations given are the locations of the beatification ceremonies, not necessarily the birthplaces or homelands of the beatified.

2005

No.	Name	Date of Beatification	Place of Beatification	Feast Day
1.	Marianne Cope¹	14 May 2005	Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City	January 23
2.	Ascensión Nicol Goñi	14 May 2005	Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City	February 24
3.	Władysław Findysz	19 June 2005	Warsaw, Poland	August 23
4.	Ignacy Kłopotowski			September 7
5.	Bronisław Markiewicz			January 29
6.	Clemens August Graf von Galen	9 October 2005	Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City	March 22
7.	Ángela Ginard Martí	29 October 2005		August 26
8.	Joseph Tàpies Sirvant & 6 Companions	29 October 2005		August 13
9.	Eurosia Fabris	6 November 2005	Vicenza, Italy	January 8
10.	Charles de Foucauld⁹	13 November 2005	Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City	December 1
11.	Maria Crocifissa Curcio			July 4
12.	Maria Pia Mastena			June 28
13.	Anacleto González Flores & 7 Companions	20 November 2005	Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico	November 20
14.	José Trinidad Rangel Montaño & 2 Companions			November 20
15.	José Sánchez del Río⁷			February 10
16.	Darío Acosta Zurita			July 25

2006

No.	Name	Date of Beatification	Place of Beatification	Feast Day
1.	Teodora Fracasso	18 March 2006	Bari, Italy	May 29
2.	Luigi Biraghi	30 April 2006	Milan, Italy	May 28
3.	Luigi Monza		Milan, Italy	September 29
4.	Thevarparampil Kunjachan		Ramapuram, Kerala, India	October 16
5.	Maria Teresa of St. Joseph	13 May 2006	Roermond, Limburg, Netherlands	October 30
6.	Maria Grazia Tarallo	14 May 2006	Naples, Italy	July 27
7.	Rita Lopes de Almeida	28 May 2006	Viseu, Portugal	September 24
8.	Eustáquio van Lieshout	15 June 2006	Belo Horizonte, Brazil	August 30
9.	Mosè Tovini	17 September 2006	Brescia, Italy	January 28
10.	Sára Salkaházi	17 September 2006	Budapest, Hungary	December 27
11.	Maria Scrilli	8 October 2006	Fiesole, Italy	November 14
12.	María Pilar López de Maturana Ortiz de Zárate	22 October 2006	Bilbao, Spain	July 23
13.	Paul Joseph Nardini	22 October 2006	Speyer, Germany	January 27
14.	Mariano de la Mata	5 November 2006	São Paulo, Brazil	April 5
15.	Euphrasia Eluvathingal³	3 December 2006	Kerala, India	August 30

2007

No.	Name	Date of Beatification	Place of Beatification	Feast Day
1.	Luigi Boccardo	14 April 2007	Turin, Italy	June 9
2.	Costanza Starace	15 April 2007	Naples, Italy	September 5
3.	Francesco Spoto	21 April 2007	Palermo, Sicily, Italy	December 27
4.	Bruna Pellesi	29 April 2007	Rimini, Italy	December 1
5.	María del Carmen González-Ramos García-Prieto de Muñoz	6 May 2007	Málaga, Spain	November 9
6.	Carlo Liviero	27 May 2007	Città di Castello, Italy	July 7
7.	Basile Moreau	15 September 2007	Le Mans, France	January 20
8.	Jeanne-Germaine Castang	16 September 2007	Bordeaux, Gironde, France	May 30
9.	Stanislaus Papczyński⁶	16 September 2007	Licheń Stary, Poland	September 17
10.	Maria Merkert	30 September 2007	Nysa, Poland	November 14
11.	Albertina Berkenbrock	20 October 2007	Tubarão, Brazil	June 15
12.	Manuel Gómez González	21 October 2007	Frederico Westphalen, Brazil	May 21
13.	Adílio Daronch	21 October 2007	Frederico Westphalen, Brazil
14.	Franz Jägerstätter	26 October 2007	Linz, Austria
15.	Celine Borzecka	27 October 2007	Rome, Italy	October 26
16.	498 Spanish Martyrs	28 October 2007	Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City	November 6
17.	Ceferino Namuncurá	11 November 2007	Chimpay, Río Negro, Argentina	August 26
18.	Antonio Rosmini	18 November 2007	Novara, Italy	July 1
19.	Lindalva Justo de Oliveira	2 December 2007	Salvador, Bahia, Brazil	January 7

2008

No.	Name	Date of Beatification	Place of Beatification	Feast Day
1.	Giuseppina Nicoli	3 February 2008	Cagliari, Italy	February 3
2.	Maria Anna Donati	30 March 2008	Florence, Italy	March 18
3.	Candlemas of San José	27 April 2008	Caracas, Venezuela	February 1
4.	Caterina Sordini	3 May 2008	Rome, Italy	April 29
5.	Margaretha Flesch	4 May 2008	Trier, Germany	June 19
6.	Marta Anna Wiecka	24 May 2008	Lviv, Ukraine	May 30
7.	Giuseppina Catanea	1 June 2008	Naples, Italy	June 26
8.	Khalīl al-Haddād	22 June 2008	Beirut, Lebanon	June 26
9.	Hendrina Stenmanns	29 June 2008	Limburg, Netherlands	May 20
9.	Luigia Poloni	21 September 2008	Verona, Italy	November 11 September 10
10.	Michael Sopocko	28 September 2008	Białystok, Poland	February 15
11.	Francesco Bonifacio	4 October 2008	Trieste, Italy	September 11
12.	Francesco Pianzola	4 October 2008	Vigevano, Pavia, Italy	June 4
13.	Louis Martin⁵	19 October 2008	Lisieux, France	July 12
14.	Marie-Azélie Guérin Martin⁵	19 October 2008	Lisieux, France	July 12
15.	Petrus Kibe Kasui & 187 Companions	24 November 2008	Nagasaki, Japan	July 1
16.	José Olallo Valdés	29 November 2008	Camagüey, Cuba	March 7

2009

No.	Name	Date of Beatification	Place of Beatification	Feast Day
1.	Eusebius of Esztergom	8 February 2009	Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City	January 20
2.	Raphaël Rafiringa	7 June 2009	Antananarivo, Madagascar	May 19
3.	Émilie de Villeneuve⁴	5 July 2009	Castres, France	October 2
4.	Joseph Kugler	4 October 2009	Regensburg, Germany	June 10
5.	Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás	18 October 2009	Toledo, Spain	February 25
6.	Carlo Gnocchi	25 October 2009	Milan, Italy	October 25
7.	Zoltán Meszlényi	31 October 2009	Budapest, Hungary	March 4
8.	Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas⁴	22 November 2009	Nazareth, Israel	March 25

2010

No.	Name	Date of Beatification	Place of Beatification	Feast Day
1.	Josep Samsó Elías	23 January 2010	Barcelona, Spain	September 1
2.	Bernardo de Hoyos	18 April 2010	Valladolid, Spain	November 29
3.	Angelo Paoli	25 April 2010	Rome, Italy	January 20
4.	Josep Tous Soler	25 April 2010	Barcelona, Spain	May 27
5.	Teresa Manganiello	22 May 2010	Benevento, Italy	November 4
6.	Maria Pierina	30 May 2010	Rome, Italy	July 26
7.	Jerzy Popiełuszko	6 June 2010	Warsaw, Poland	October 19
8.	Manuel Lozano Garrido	12 June 2010	Linares, Jaén, Spain	November 3
9.	Lojze Grozde	13 June 2010	Celje, Slovenia	May 27
10.	Stephen Nehmé	27 June 2010	Kfifan, Lebanon	August 30
11.	Leopold of Alpandeire	12 September 2010	Armilla, Spain	February 9
12.	María de la Purísima Salvat Romero⁵	18 September 2010	Seville, Spain	September 18
13.	John Henry Newman⁸	19 September 2010	Birmingham, England	October 9
14.	Gerhard Hirschfelder	19 September 2010	Münster, Germany	August 2
15.	Chiara Badano	25 September 2010	Rome, Italy	October 29
16.	Anna Maria Adorni Botti	3 October 2010	Parma, Italy	February 7
17.	Alfonsa Clerici	23 October 2010	Vercelli, Italy	January 14
18.	Szilárd Bogdánffy	30 October 2010	Oradea, Romania	October 3
19.	Barbara Maix	6 November 2010	Porto Alegre, Brazil	March 17

2011

No.	Name	Date of Beatification	Place of Beatification	Feast Day
1.	Pope John Paul II²	1 May 2011	Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City	October 22
2.	Giustino Russolillo⁹	7 May 2011	Naples, Italy	August 2
3.	Georg Häfner	15 May 2011	Würzburg, Germany	August 20
4.	Maria Clara of the Child Jesus	21 May 2011	Lisbon, Portugal	December 1
5.	Irmã Dulce Pontes⁸	22 May 2011	Salvador, Bahia, Brazil	August 13
6.	Clotilde Micheli	28 May 2011	Faicchio, Benevento, Italy	March 24
7.	Juan de Palafox y Mendoza	5 June 2011	El Burgo de Osma, Soria, Spain	October 1
8.	Alojs Andritzki	13 June 2011	Dresden, Germany	February 3
9.	Marguerite Rutan	19 June 2011	Dax, Landes, France	June 26
10.	Johannes Prassek	25 June 2011	Lübeck, Germany	November 10
11.	Eduard Müller
12.	Hermann Lange
13.	Serafino Morazzone	26 June 2011	Milan, Italy	April 13
14.	Enrichetta Alfieri			November 23
15.	Clement Vismara			June 15
16.	János Scheffler	3 July 2011	Satu Mare, Romania	December 6
17.	Elena Aiello	14 September 2011	Cosenza, Italy	June 19
18.	Francesco Paleari	17 September 2011	Turin, Italy	May 7
19.	Maria Jula Ivanišević & 4 Companions	24 September 2011	Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina	December 15
20.	Antonia Maria Verna	2 October 2011	Ivrea, Turin, Italy	June 12
21.	Anna Maria Janer Anglarill	8 October 2011	Urgell, Lleida, Spain	January 11
22.	María Catalina Irigoyen Echegaray	29 October 2011	Madrid, Spain	October 10
23.	Carl Lampert	13 November 2011	Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, Austria	November 13
24.	Francisco Esteban Lacal & 21 Companions	17 December 2011	Madrid, Spain	November 28

2012

No.	Name	Date of Beatification	Place of Beatification	Feast Day
1.	Hildegard Burjan	29 January 2012	Vienna, Austria	June 12
2.	Manuela de Jesús Arias Espinosa	21 April 2012	Mexico City, Mexico	July 22
3.	Giuseppe Toniolo	29 April 2012	Rome, Italy	October 7
4.	Pierre-Adrien Toulorge	29 April 2012	Coutances, France	October 13
5.	Marie-Louise-Élisabeth de Lamoignon de Molé de Champlâtreux	27 May 2012	Vannes, Morbihan, France	March 4
6.	Alcide-Vital Lataste	3 June 2012	Besançon, France	September 5
7.	Cecilia Eusepi	17 June 2012	Nepi, Viterbo, Italy	October 1
8.	Mariano Arciero	24 June 2012	Terme, Italy	February 16
9.	Louis Brisson	22 September 2012	Troyes, France	February 2
10.	Gabriele Allegra	29 September 2012	Catania, Sicily, Italy	January 26
11.	Bedřich Bachstein & 13 Companions	13 October 2012	Prague, Czech Republic	February 15
12.	Gertrude Prosperi	10 November 2012	Perugia, Italy	September 12
13.	María Angélica Pérez	17 November 2012	Buenos Aires, Argentina	May 20
14.	Maria Troncatti¹⁰	24 November 2012	Macas, Morona-Santiago, Ecuador	August 25
15.	Devasahayam Pillai⁹	2 December 2012	Tamil Nadu, Nagercoil, India	January 14

Notes

^1 Later canonized on 21 October 2012.

^2 Later canonized on 27 April 2014.

^3 Later canonized on 23 November 2014.

^4 Later canonized on 17 May 2015.

^5 Later canonized on 18 October 2015.

^6 Later canonized on 5 June 2016.

^7 Later canonized on 16 October 2016.

^8 Later canonized on 13 October 2019.

^9 Later canonized on 15 May 2022.

^10 To be canonized in 2025.

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Born Joseph Alois Ratzinger, 16 April 1927 – 31 December 2022
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