Benedict XV

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Benedict XV (1854-1922) was elected pope of the Roman Catholic Church in 1914. His reign was dominated by World War I (1914-1918) and by a conflict with the Kingdom of Italy. This conflict, called the Roman question, concerned the status of Rome after Italian troops occupied the city in 1870, thus ending papal temporal (nonreligious) power there.

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