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Pope Francis was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires on 17 December 1936, the son of Italian migrants. His father was employed by the railways and his mother was a committed wife dedicated to raising their five children. He graduated as a chemical technician, then chose the path of the priesthood. In 1958 he entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus. He completed his studies in the humanities in Chile and returned to Argentina in 1963 to graduate with a degree in philosophy. From 1964 to 1966 he taught literature and psychology at two different colleges.
On 13 December 1969, he was ordained a priest. In 1973 he made his final profession with the Jesuits. During the same year, he was appointed Provincial of the Jesuits in Argentina, an office he held for six years. He then resumed his work in the university sector and from 1980 to 1986 served once again as Rector of the Colegio de San José, as well as parish priest, in San Miguel. After finishing his doctoral thesis in Germany, his superiors sent him back to Buenos Aires where he served as spiritual director in
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Pope Francis
Head of the Catholic Church since 2013
Pope Francis (Latin: Franciscus; Italian: Francesco; Spanish: Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio;[b] 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. He is the first pope from the Society of Jesus (the Jesuit Order), the first from the Americas and the Southern Hemisphere, and the first born or raised outside Europe since the 8th-century papacy of the Syrian pope Gregory III.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Bergoglio worked for a time as a bouncer and a janitor before training to become a chemist and working as a technician in a food science laboratory. After recovering from a severe case of pneumonia and cysts, he was inspired to join the Jesuits in 1958. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1969; from 1973 to 1979, he was the Jesuit provincial superior in Argentina. 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; the administ
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Since 2013, Pope Francis has served as the leader of the Catholic Church and the ruler of the Vatican City State. Since Gregory III, a Syrian who reigned in the ninth century, Francis is the first pope from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first from outside Europe. Bergoglio was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and as a young man worked as a bouncer and janitor before studying chemistry and working as a technician in a food science laboratory. He was motivated to join the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) in 1958 after recuperating from a serious illness.
He was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1969 and served as the Jesuit provincial superior in Argentina from 1973 until 1979. In 1998, he was named Archbishop of Buenos Aires, and Pope John Paul II made him a cardinal in 2001. During the Argentine riots in December 2001, he headed the Argentine Church. Néstor Kirchner's and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's governments viewed him as a political competitor. Following Pope Benedict XVI's retirement on February 28, 2013, a papal conclave chose Bergogl
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