Pope Francis
Pope Francis was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on Dec. 17, in Buenos Aires. After earning a secondary school degree as a chemical technician, Bergoglio felt a call to the priesthood as a Jesuit, joining the novitiate in , at the age of
He was ordained a priest on Dec. 13, In he made his perpetual vows in the Society of Jesus and the same year was elected Jesuit provincial for Argentina. He would go on to serve as a seminary rector, a pastor, a professor, and a spiritual director.
In Fr. Bergoglio was consecrated an auxiliary bishop of the Buenos Aires archdiocese. He became the archdiocese’s coadjutor archbishop in , and succeeded as archbishop the following year. St. John Paul II named Archbishop Bergoglio a cardinal in
As president of the Argentine bishops’ conference from to , Bergoglio attended the Fifth Latin American Episcopal Conference held in Aparecida, Brazil in May
He was in charge of the drafting of the meeting’s final document, which came to be known as the Aparecida document, recognized as an important guiding document for the Church in Latin America and beyond.
On March 13, , Bergoglio was elected to the papacy, at the age of He was the fir
Argentinian Jorge Bergoglio new Pope Francis
The election of the new head of the Catholic Church lasted just two days, with the decision being made after five rounds of voting on Wednesday evening shortly after 7pm. The th Pope then appeared in public for the first time shortly before pm. Francis stepped onto the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica and hundreds of thousands of people applauded enthusiastically.
Thanks to his predecessor Benedict XVI
The new pontiff paid tribute to his predecessor Benedict XVI, calling on the faithful to pray so that great brotherhood may reign in the world. The year-old hopes that the path that began with his election will be fruitful for evangelization. Francis joked about his Argentinian origins. The conclave had "brought a pope from the other side of the world".
Francis prayed with the faithful
At the end of his short address, the new Pope prayed an Our Father and a Hail Mary for his predecessor with the faithful in St. Peter's Square. When Francis then asked the faithful to pray silently for him, the square, filled with tens of thousands of faithful and tourists, fell completely silent. After the apostolic blessing "Urbi et O
BIOGRAPHY
OF THE HOLY FATHER
FRANCIS
The first Pope of the Americas Jorge Mario Bergoglio hails from Argentina. The year-old Jesuit Archbishop of Buenos Aires is a prominent figure throughout the continent, yet remains a simple pastor who is deeply loved by his diocese, throughout which he has travelled extensively on the underground and by bus during the 15 years of his episcopal ministry.
“My people are poor and I am one of them”, he has said more than once, explaining his decision to live in an apartment and cook his own supper. He has always advised his priests to show mercy and apostolic courage and to keep their doors open to everyone. The worst thing that could happen to the Church, he has said on various occasions, “is what de Lubac called spiritual worldliness”, which means, “being self-centred”. And when he speaks of social justice, he calls people first of all to pick up the Catechism, to rediscover the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes. His project is simple: if you follow Christ, you understand that “trampling upon a person’s dignity is a serious sin”.
Despite his reserved character — his official biography consists of
Profile: New pope, Jesuit Bergoglio, was runner-up in conclave
In the days leading up to the conclave, John Allen offered a profile each day of one of the most frequently touted papabili, or men who could be pope. On March 3, he profiled Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who was elected March 13 to be Pope Francis. Here is the profile Allen wrote:
While there are still no tracking polls to establish who's got legs as a papal candidate, the conclave at least has one objective measure not available in past performance. Many of the cardinals seen as candidates now were also on offer the last time around, and someone who had traction eight years ago could be a contender again.
By that measure alone, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, at least merits a look.
After the dust settled from the election of Benedict XVI, various reports identified the Argentine Jesuit as the main challenger to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. One cardinal later said the conclave had been "something of a horse race" between Ratzinger and Bergoglio, and an anonymous conclave diary splashed across the Italian media in September claimed that Bergoglio received 4
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