Benedict

Benedict may refer to:

People

Names

• Benedict (given name), including a list of people with the given name
• Benedict (surname), including a list of people with the surname

Religious figures

For saints, see Saint Benedict (disambiguation).

• Pope Benedict I (died 579), head of the Catholic Church from 2 June 575 to his death in 579
• Pope Benedict II (635–685), also a saint
• Pope Benedict III (died 858), head of the Catholic Church from 29 September 855 to his death in 858
• Pope Benedict IV (died 903), head of the Catholic Church from 1 February 900 to his death in 903
• Pope Benedict V (died 965), head of the Catholic Church from 22 May to 23 June 964, in opposition to Pope Leo VIII
• Pope Benedict VI (died 974), head of the Catholic Church from 19 January 973 to his death in 974
• Pope Benedict VII (died 983), head of the Catholic Church from October 974 to his death in 983
• Pope Benedict VIII (died 1024), head of the Catholic Church from 18 May 1012 to his death in 1024
• Pope Benedict IX (c. 1010–1056), in Rome, was the head of the Catholic Church on three occasions between October 1032 and July 1048
• Pope Benedict XI (1240–1304), head of the Catholic Church from 22 October 1303 to his death in 1304
• Pope Benedict XII (c. 1280–1342), head of the Catholic Church from 20 December 1334 to his death in 1342. He was the third Avignon Pope
• Pope Benedict XIII (1649–1730), later Friar Vincenzo Maria Orsini, O.P., was the head of the Catholic Church from 29 May 1724 to his death in 1730
• Pope Benedict XIV (1675–1758), head of the Catholic Church from 17 August 1740 to his death in 1758
• Pope Benedict XV (1854–1922), head of the Catholic Church from 3 September 1914 to his death in 1922
• Pope Benedict XVI (1927–2022), head of the Catholic Church from 19 April 2005 until his resignation in 2013
• Antipope Benedict X (c. 1000–c. 1070), son of Guido (the youngest son of Alberic III, Count of Tusculum), a brother of the notorious Pope Benedict IX (deposed in 1048), a member of the dominant political dynasty in the region at that time
• Antipope Benedict XIII (1328–1423), known as el Papa Luna in Spanish, was an Aragonese nobleman, who is officially considered by the Catholic Church to be an antipope
• Antipope Benedict XIV, the name used by two closely related minor antipopes of the 15th century

Places

• Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, an area in Los Angeles County, California
• Benedict (crater), a lunar crater
• Benedict Fjord, Greenland
• Benedict Glacier, Canada
• Benedict, Georgia, U.S.
• Benedict, Kansas, U.S.
• Benedict, Maryland, U.S.
• Benedict, Minnesota, U.S.
• Benedict, Nebraska, U.S.
• Benedict, North Dakota, U.S.
• Benedikt, Slovenia, Slovenia

Other uses

• Benedict College, South Carolina, United States
• Benedict International Education Group, a Swiss group with 80 schools worldwide
• Benedict's reagent, a chemical reagent

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Benedict
• All pages with titles containing Benedict
• Saint Benedict (disambiguation)
• São Bento (disambiguation)
• St Benet (disambiguation)
• Benediction, a short invocation for divine help
• Order of Saint Benedict, a Roman Catholic religious order
• Benedictine (disambiguation)
• Eggs Benedict, a food dish
• Benedict's reagent, a test for aldehydes in chemistry