Editing Pope Benedict XVI (section)

== Distinctions ==
[[File:20130214 - Notre-Dame de Paris - Les nouvelles cloches - 007.jpg|thumb|In 2013, one of [[Bells of Notre-Dame de Paris#21st century bells|Notre-Dame de Paris' new bells]] was named Benoît-Joseph after Benedict.]]
A variety of awards and honours were given to Benedict including the following:

* 1999 Bailiff Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion of the [[Sovereign Military Order of Malta]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Benedict XVI return to the Father's House |url=https://www.orderofmalta.int/news/benedict-xvi-return-fathers-house/ |publisher=Order of Malta |access-date=31 December 2022}}</ref>
* 2010 honorary citizen of [[Romano Canavese]], [[Piedmont]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2010/march/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20100317_romano-canavese_en.html|title=Conferral of Honorary Citizenship of the Italian City of Romano Canavese |author=Benedict XVI |date=17 March 2010|publisher=The Vatican|access-date=8 March 2013}}</ref>
* 2010 honorary citizen of [[Lisbon]], honouring his visit to the city on 11–12 May 2010<ref>{{cite web|title=Homily of His Holiness Benedict XVI, Terreiro do Paço of Lisbon Tuesday, 11 May 2010|url=https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/homilies/2010/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20100511_terreiro-paco_en.html|author=Benedict XVI |publisher=Holy See|access-date=12 March 2014|quote=I warmly thank (...) the Mayor of Lisbon, who has been good enough to confer upon me the keys of the city.}}</ref>
* The asteroid [[8661 Ratzinger]] was named in his honour for the role he played in supervising the opening of the [[Vatican Apostolic Archive]] in 1998 to researchers investigating judicial errors against [[Galileo]] and other scientists. The name was proposed by the asteroid's discoverers, L. D. Schmadel and F. Borngen at Tautenburg.<ref name="nasa">{{cite web|title=8661 Ratzinger (1990 TA13) |work=NASA |url=http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=8661+Ratzinger |access-date=28 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705164903/http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=8661+Ratzinger |archive-date=5 July 2015}}</ref>