Pope Francis I

Pope Francis I
Bishop of Rome
Pope Francis in 2015
Church	Catholic Church
Papacy began	13 March 2013
Predecessor	Benedict XVI
Orders
Ordination	13 December 1969 by Ramón José Castellano
Consecration	27 June 1992 by Antonio Quarracino
Created cardinal	21 February 2001 by John Paul II
Personal details
Birth name	Jorge Mario Bergoglio
Born	(1936-12-17) 17 December 1936 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nationality	Argentine (with Vatican citizenship)
Denomination	Catholic
Residence	Domus Sanctae Marthae
Previous post(s)	Provincial Superior of the Society of Jesus in Argentina (1973–1979) Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires (1992–1997) Titular Bishop of Auca (1992–1997) Archbishop of Buenos Aires (1998–2013) Cardinal Priest of San Roberto Bellarmino (2001–2013) Ordinary for the Faithful of the Eastern Rites in Argentina (1998–2013) President of the Argentine Episcopal Conference (2005–2011)
Education	Maximum College of St. Joseph Philosophical and Theological Faculty of San Miguel Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology
Motto	Miserando atque eligendo Press reports have provided a variety of translations for the phrase. According to Vatican Radio: "Pope Francis has chosen the motto Miserando atque eligendo, meaning lowly but chosen; literally in Latin by having mercy, by choosing him. The motto is one Francis used as bishop. It is taken from the homilies of the Venerable Bede on Saint Matthew's Gospel relating to his vocation: 'Jesus saw the tax collector and by having mercy chose him as an apostle saying to him: Follow me.
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Ordination history
History Priestly ordination Ordained by Ramón José Castellano Date 13 December 1969 Episcopal consecration Principal consecrator Antonio Cardinal Quarracino Co-consecrators Ubaldo Calabresi and Emilio Ogñénovich Date 27 June 1992 Cardinalate Elevated by Pope John Paul II Date 21 February 2001 For other uses, see Pope Francis I (disambiguation).
Episcopal succession Bishops consecrated by Pope Francis I as principal consecrator Horacio Ernesto Benites Astoul 1 May 1999 Jorge Rubén Lugones 30 July 1999 Jorge Eduardo Lozano 25 March 2000 Joaquín Mariano Sucunza 21 October 2000 José Antonio Gentico 28 April 2001 Fernando Carlos Maletti 18 September 2001 Andrés Stanovnik 16 December 2001 Mario Aurelio Poli 20 April 2002 Eduardo Horacio García 16 August 2003 Adolfo Armando Uriona 8 May 2004 Eduardo Maria Taussig 25 September 2004 Raúl Martín 20 May 2006 Hugo Manuel Salaberry Goyeneche 21 August 2006 Óscar Vicente Ojea Quintana 2 September 2006 Hugo Nicolás Barbaro 4 July 2008 Enrique Eguía Seguí 11 October 2008 Ariel Edgardo Torrado Mosconi 13 December 2008 Luis Alberto Fernández Alara 27 March 2009 Vicente Bokalic Iglic 29 May 2010 Alfredo Horacio Zecca 18 August 2011 Jean-Marie Antoine Joseph Speich 24 October 2013 Giampiero Gloder 24 October 2013 Fernando Vérgez Alzaga 15 November 2013 Fabio Fabene 30 May 2014 Angelo De Donatis 9 November 2015 Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot 19 March 2016 Peter Bryan Wells 19 March 2016 Waldemar Stanisław Sommertag 19 March 2018 Alfred Xuereb 19 March 2018 José Avelino Bettencourt 19 March 2018 Alberto Ricardo Lorenzelli Rossi 22 June 2019 Michael F. Czerny 4 October 2019 Paolo Borgia 4 October 2019 Antoine Camilleri 4 October 2019 Paolo Rudelli 4 October 2019 Guido Marini 17 October 2021 Andrés Gabriel Ferrada Moreira 17 October 2021 For other uses, see Pope Francis I (disambiguation).
For other uses, see Pope Francis I (disambiguation).

For other uses, see Pope Francis I (disambiguation).

Pope Francis I (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on December 17, 1936) is the 266th and current Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, a title he holds ex officio as Bishop of Rome, and Sovereign of the Vatican City. He chose Francis as his papal name in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi. Francis is the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere and the first non-European pope since the Syrian Gregory III, who died in 741.

Biography

Early life

Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on December 17, 1936. He was the son of Mario José Bergoglio (1908-1959) and Regina Maria Sivori (1911-1981) and was oldest of five children. His father, Mario Bergoglio was an Italian Argentine accountant born in Portacomaro in Italy's region of Piedmont. His mother Regina Sivori was an Argentine housewife born to a family of northern Italian origin.

Career as a Jesuit (1958-2013)

Bergoglio found his vocation to the priesthood while he was on his way to celebrate the Spring Day. He passed by a church to go to confession, and was inspired by the priest.^[ Bergoglio studied at the archdiocesan seminary, Inmaculada Concepción Seminary, in Villa Devoto, Buenos Aires, and, after three years, entered the Society of Jesus as a novice on 11 March 1958. Bergoglio has said that, as a young seminarian, he had a crush on a girl he met and briefly doubted about continuing the religious career. As a Jesuit novice he studied humanities in Santiago, Chile. At the conclusion of his novitiate in the Society of Jesus, Bergoglio officially became a Jesuit on 12 March 1960, when he made the religious profession of the initial, perpetual vows of poverty, chastity and obedience of a member of the order.

In 1960, Bergoglio obtained a licentiate in philosophy from the Colegio Máximo de San José in San Miguel, Buenos Aires Province. He taught literature and psychology at the Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepción, a high school in Santa Fe, from 1964 to 1965. In 1966, he taught the same courses at the Colegio del Salvador in Buenos Aires.