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Pope Francis
From modest start to world leader
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Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born of Italian immigrant parents in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, in 1936, the oldest of five children. He went to a Catholic primary school and then graduated from a trading hue with a diploma for the chemical technician, and went to work in a food laboratory.
By the time he was 21 years old, he had endangered pneumonia so seriously that it was threatening his life and walked cysts on a lung … What encouraged an operation to remove part of one of his lungs. That would influence the rest of his life, even until his last days.
On 22 he was inspired to study at an Argentinian seminar and three years later he traveled to Chile to continue studying. On 24 -year -old Organized as a priest in 1969At the age of 33, and in 1973 he took his last vows as a Jesuit.
He reached the rank of Roman Catholic Cardinal in 2001, appointed by Pope John Paul IIAnd more and more involved in political offices of the church, while maintaining a reputation for issues of social justice and a simple lifestyle.
When John Paul II died in 2005, Bergoglio was one of the cardinals fighting to be selected as the new Pope, but the conclave chosen Pope Benedict XVI. Benedict resigned from the papacy due to health problems in February 2013. He was the first pope to voluntarily resigned since 1415.
In March 2013, Bergoglio was chosen on the second day of the conclave and took the name Francis, in honor of Saint Francis van Assisi … mainly because of the work of the saint with the poor. He was the first pope to accept the name Franciscus.
Bergoglio was also the first pope from Latin -America and the first Jesuit. He chose not to live in the papal residence in the Vatican and to opt for a guest house instead.
He spoke Spanish, Italian, German, English, French, Portuguese and of course Latin.
Francis died on Easter Monday April 21, 2025 in his Vatican residence. He had bronchitis for weeks, which led to pneumonia in both lungs. He suffered a stroke, which led to a coma and cardiac arrest. He was 88.
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