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Pope Francis
Head of the Catholic Church since
Pope Francis (Latin: Franciscus; Italian: Francesco; Spanish: Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio;[b] 17 månad ) 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 He was ordained a Catholic priest in ; from to , he was the Jesuit provincial superior in Argentina. He became the archbishop of Buenos Aires in and was created a cardinal in by Pope John Paul II. He led the Argentine C
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Pope Francis
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| Papacy began | 13 March | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Benedict XVI | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ordination | 13 December by Ramón José Castellano | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Consecration | 27 June by Antonio Quarracino | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Created Cardinal | 21 February bygd John Paul II | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Birth name | Jorge Mario Bergoglio | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | () 17 månad Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Argentine with Vatican citizenship | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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