Benedict

Benedict most commonly refers to Saint Benedict of Nursia, the founder of the Order of Saint Benedict and thereby of Western Monasticism (Benedictine).

Benedict may also refer to:

Places

• Benedict College, South Carolina, USA
• Benedict (crater), a lunar crater
• Benedict Glacier, on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada
• Benedict, Georgia, an unincorporated community
• Benedict, Kansas, USA
• Benedict, Maryland, USA
• Benedict, Minnesota, USA
• Benedict, Nebraska, USA
• Benedict, North Dakota, USA
• Benedikt, Slovenia, a municipality in Slovenia
• St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School (disambiguation), several places
• Saint Benedict, Louisiana, USA
• Saint Benedict, Oregon, USA
• San Benedicto Island, Mexico

Schools

• Benedict International Education Group, a Swiss group with 80 schools worldwide

Food

• Eggs Benedict, an American dish that consists of two halves of an English muffin, topped with ham or bacon, poached eggs, and Hollandaise sauce
• Benedictine (spread), a spread/dip made with cucumbers and cream cheese

Science

• Benedict's reagent, a test for aldehydes in chemistry

People

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

Saints

• Benedict of Aniane (747–821), Benedictine monk and monastic reformer, who left a large imprint on the religious practice of the Carolingian Empire
• Benedict Biscop (628–690), Anglo-Saxon abbot and founder of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Priory (where he also founded the famous library) and was considered a saint after his death
• Benedict the Bridge-Builder, also known as Bénézet
• Benedict (bishop of Milan) (died 732), archbishop of Milan from c. 685 to c. 732
• Benedict Joseph Labre (1748–1783), French mendicant, Franciscan tertiary and Roman Catholic saint
• Benedict the Moor (1526–1589), also known as Benedict the Black
• Benedict of Nursia (480–c. 540), Christian saint, honored by the Anglican Church and the Catholic Church as the patron saint of Europe and students
• Benedict of Szkalka, born Stojislav in Nitra (Nyitra), Hungarian Kingdom, was a Benedictine monk and Roman Catholic saint

Popes

• 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 (born 1927), Roman Pontiff Emeritus

Antipopes

• 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

See also

• São Bento (disambiguation), Portuguese for Saint Benedict, several meanings
• Benediction, a short invocation for divine help, blessing and guidance, usually at the end of worship service
• Order of Saint Benedict, a Roman Catholic religious order of independent monastic communities that observe the Rule of Saint Benedict