Editing Pope Benedict XV (section)

== Internal activities ==
=== Canonizations and beatifications ===
{{Main|List of people beatified by Pope Benedict XV}}
Benedict XV canonized three individuals, all in May 1920: [[Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows]], [[Joan of Arc]], and [[Margaret Mary Alacoque]]. He also beatified a total of forty-six people, including the [[Uganda Martyrs]] (1920), [[Oliver Plunkett]] (1920) and [[Louise de Marillac]] (1920).{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

=== Doctor of the Church ===
He named [[Ephrem the Syrian]] as a [[Doctor of the Church]] on 5 October 1920.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

=== Consistories ===
{{Main|Cardinals created by Benedict XV}}
The pope created 32 cardinals in five consistories, elevating men into the cardinalate such as [[Pietro La Fontaine]] (1916) and [[Michael von Faulhaber]] (1921); he reserved two ''[[in pectore]]'' but later published one name ([[Adolf Bertram]]). The pope's death in 1922 therefore invalidated the second appointment (it has been alleged that the second ''in pectore'' cardinal was to be [[Pavel Huyn]]).<ref>{{cite web |last=Miranda |first=Salvador |title=Consistory of December 4, 1916 (II) |url=http://webdept.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1916.htm |publisher=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church |access-date=20 January 2019}}</ref>

Benedict XV elevated 31 Europeans into the College of Cardinals with [[Dennis Joseph Dougherty]] as the single non-European cardinal appointed. In the 1916 consistory, no German or Austro-Hungarian cardinals were able to attend due to the intensity of the war. In that consistory, by naming Adolf Bertram as a cardinal "''in pectore''", Benedict XV hoped not to provoke any negativity in his selection from the Allies, particularly the Italians. Bertram was not formally invested in the Sacred College until December 1919, after the war had concluded.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

In the 1921 consistory, Benedict XV is reported to have said, that "We gave you the red robe of a Cardinal.... very soon, however, one of you will wear the white robe".<ref>{{cite book |last=Aradi |first=Zsolt |title=Pius XI: The Pope and the Man |date=2017 |publisher=Pickle Partners Publishing |page={{page needed|date=February 2022}} |isbn=9781787205000 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lgQqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT139 |access-date=16 February 2022}}</ref>