Pope Francis

Pope Francis
Bishop of Rome

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 (age 80) Flores, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nationality	Argentine (with Vatican citizenship)
Residence	Apostolic Palace, Vatican City (de jure) Domus Sanctae Marthae (de facto)
Previous post	Provincial superior of the Society of Jesus in Argentina (1973–79) Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires (1992–97) Titular Bishop of Auca (1992–97) Archbishop of Buenos Aires (1998–2013) Cardinal-Priest of San Roberto Bellarmino (2001–13) Ordinary of the Ordinariate for the Faithful of the Eastern Rites in Argentina (1998–2013) President of the Argentine Episcopal Conference (2005–11)
Motto	Miserando atque Eligendo
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Ordination history of Pope Francis
Priestly ordination
Ordained by	Ramón José Castellano (Córdoba emer)
Date of ordination	13 December 1969
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecrator	Antonio Card Quarracino (Buenos Aires)
Co-consecrators	Ubaldo Calabresi (Argentina AN) Emilio Ogñénovich (Mercedes-Luján)
Date of consecration	27 June 1992
Cardinalate
Elevated by	John Paul II
Date of elevation	21 February 2001
Bishops consecrated by Pope Francis 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	27 March 2009
Vicente Bokalic Iglic	29 May 2010
Alfredo Horacio Zecca	17 September 2011
Jean-Marie 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
Peter Bryan Wells	19 March 2016
Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot	19 March 2016

External media
Images
White smoke after election
Video
White smoke on YouTube
Habemus Papam on YouTube
First appearance and speech on YouTube

Pope Francis (Latin: Franciscus; Italian: Francesco; Spanish: Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 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 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 pope from outside Europe since Syrian Gregory III, who died in 741.

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Bergoglio worked briefly as a chemical technologist and nightclub bouncer before beginning seminary studies. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1969, and from 1973 to 1979 was Argentina's provincial superior of the Society of Jesus. He was accused of handing two priests to the National Reorganization Process during the Dirty War, but the lawsuit was ultimately dismissed. He became the Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998, and was created a cardinal in 2001 by Pope John Paul II. He led the Argentine Church during the December 2001 riots in Argentina, and the administrations of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner considered him a political rival. Following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI on 28 February 2013, a papal conclave elected Bergoglio as his successor on 13 March.