Pope Francis Latin: Franciscus; Italian: Francesco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio,[b][c] 17 December 1936) born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1969 1973 to 1979 was Argentinas Provincial superior of the Society of Jesus. He became the Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 was created a cardinal in 2001 by Pope John Paul II. following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI on 28 February 2013, a papal conclave elected Bergoglio as his successor on 13 March. 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 in 741, 1,272 years earlier.[4]
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