Rome (CNN) -- Pope Benedict will resign on February 28, his spokesman Father Federico Lombardi told CNN Monday.
Lombardi did not give a reason for the resignation.
Benedict, the 265th pope, is the sixth German to
serve as pope and the first since the 11th century. He has led church after the
third-longest papacy in church history and during a time in which the church is
declining in his native Europe but expanding in Africa and Latin America.
No reason
was given for the pope's resignation
Benedict is the first German pope since the
11th century
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