List of people beatified by Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI beatified 870 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
1.	Marianne Cope¹	14 May 2005	Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
2.	Ascensión Nicol Goñi	14 May 2005	Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
3.	Władysław Findysz	19 June 2005	Warsaw, Poland
4.	Ignacy Kłopotowski
5.	Bronisław Markiewicz
6.	Clemens August Graf von Galen	9 October 2005	Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
7.	Ángela Ginard Martí	29 October 2005
8.	Joseph Tàpies Sirvant & 6 Companions	29 October 2005
9.	Eurosia Fabris	6 November 2005	Vicenza, Italy
10.	Charles de Foucauld⁹	13 November 2005	Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
11.	Maria Crocifissa Curcio
12.	Maria Pia Mastena
13.	Anacleto González Flores & 7 Companions	20 November 2005	Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
14.	José Trinidad Rangel Montaño & 2 Companions
15.	José Sánchez del Río⁷
16.	Darío Acosta Zurita

2006

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

2007

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

2008

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

2009

No.	Name	Date of Beatification	Place of Beatification
1.	Raphaël Rafiringa	7 June 2009	Antananarivo, Madagascar
2.	Émilie de Villeneuve⁴	5 July 2009	Castres, France
3.	Joseph Kugler	4 October 2009	Regensburg, Germany
4.	Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás	18 October 2009	Toledo, Spain
5.	Carlo Gnocchi	25 October 2009	Milan, Italy
6.	Zoltán Meszlényi	31 October 2009	Budapest, Hungary
7.	Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas⁴	22 November 2009	Nazareth, Israel

2010

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

2011

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

2012

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

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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