Pope Benedict XV
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Pope Benedict XV was born Giacomo della Chiesa, of a noble Italian family, in 1854. Ordained at the age of 24, he became secretary to the Papal embassy in Spain in 1883. He became a bishop in 1900, Archbishop of Bologna in 1907 and cardinal in May 1914. He was elected Pope on September 3rd 1914, to succeed Pope Pius X. He died in 1922.