Yesterday the resolution of the Conclave on the election of the new Pope of Rome was announced from Rome, after the (voluntary) departure of Benedict XVI. The chosen one was the Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio and who will be called Francis from now on. In Superhistory we now offer you the Biography of Pope Francis.
Article index:
- Biography of Pope Francis
- The election of the new Pope of Rome
- Pope Francis Biography Video
Biography of Pope Francis:
- The Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergogliowhich is also Archbishop of Buenos Aires has been chosen as the new Pope of Rome, after the resignation of Benedict XVI, and who will be known as the Pope Francisco.
- The new dad was born in Buenos Aires on December 17, 1936 so he is now 76 years old. He studied and graduated as a Chemical Technician, to later choose the path of the priesthood and enter the Villa Devoto seminary.
- On March 11, 1958, he entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), and carried out humanistic studies in Chile. In 1963 he returned to Buenos Aires, where he graduated in Philosophy from the Faculty of Philosophy of the “San José” College in San Miguel.
- Among 1964 to 1965 is professor of Literature and Psychology at the Colegio de la Inmaculada de Santa Fe, and in 1966 he taught the same subject at the Colegio de El Salvador in Buenos Aires. got a degree.
- He is ordained a priest on December 13, 1969 at the age of 33.. In the 1970-71 academic year, he passed the third probation in Alcalá de Henares (Spain) and on April 22 he made his perpetual profession.
- He has also been master of novices at Villa Barilari, in San Miguel (1972-1973), professor at the Faculty of Theology and Consultor of the Province and Rector of the Arriba College.
- In the 1980s he traveled to Germany to complete his doctoral thesis and later moved to the church of the Company in the city of Córdoba as spiritual director and confessor.
- On May 20, 1992, John Paul II appointed him Titular Bishop of Auca and Auxiliary of Buenos Aires.. On June 27 of the same year he received episcopal ordination in the Buenos Aires cathedral from Cardinal Antonio Quarracino, the Apostolic Nuncio Monsignor Ubaldo Calabresi and the Bishop of Mercedes-Luján, Monsignor Emilio Ogñénovich.
- It is not until 1997 when, on June 13, he is appointed co-auditor archbishop of Buenos Aires, and on February 28, 1998, archbishop of Buenos Aires by succession, on the death of Cardinal Quarracino.
- Pope Francis is also the author of the books “Meditations for Religious” from 1982, “Reflections on Apostolic Life” published in 1986 and “Reflections on Hope” from 1992, according to the Vatican.
The election of the new Pope of Rome:
- The election of the new Pope of Rome kept everyone’s attention for two days in which the Conclave of the 115 cardinals was held to decide who would be the now Pope Francis; name chosen by Francis of Assisi.
- The new Supreme Pontiff told the 114 cardinals who elected him that he had chosen the name Francisco in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi, who is known in Catholicism as “the poor man” because he renounced earthly goods.
- Many have highlighted precisely the humble character of the new pope and in fact just yesterday when he had to be transferred to dinner, and being already the elected Pope Francis, he refused the limousine and got on the last bus with the other cardinals to go to a residence inside the Vatican.
- It took two black smokes, and five votesfor the election of Bergoglio as the new Pope and in fact he was not among the favorites at all.
- Finally, on the afternoon of Wednesday, March 13, 2013, white smoke came out and the bells rang, which meant “Habemus Papa”; that is, we already have a new Pope.
Pope Francis Biography Video