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Another new statistic for Benedict XVI, for those who follow Anura Guruga's continuous work to track this Pontificate and compare it to chronological milestones in previous Pontificates since data became regularly available in 1400. Guruga is an East Coast-based IT consultant, specializing in data banks, and has written many books and articles on information technologies and communications. He writes the blog on Popes and the Papacy on the side. I just hope his mathematical calculations are more reliable than his opinions, which, from what he posts as images, he bases on Google translations from Italian and German when they are not available in English - he claimed in recent days that the two German associates of the Pope sought to be implicated by two writers in Vatileaks were Ingrid Stampa and Georg Gaenswein!

Benedict XVI has now surpassed
median length of all Pontificates

July 25, 2012



- Benedict XVI will be 5th oldest pope, since 1400, on October 31, 2012
- Benedict XVI oldest pope to travel abroad.
- Benedict XVI on September 8, 2012 will surpass the length of Benedict XV’s (Pope #259) pontificate.