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          Former cardinal Jorge Bergoglio begins work after surprise election • First non-European pope in years.

        1. Former cardinal Jorge Bergoglio begins work after surprise election • First non-European pope in years.
        2. He served as Prior General of the Order from A person declared as venerable has lived a virtuous life centered on the theological and cardinal.
        3. An introspective Pope Francis has divulged some of the behind-the-scenes dynamics of the secret conclave that elected him pope and the.
        4. Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, has just been introduced to the world as the next Bishop of Rome.
        5. Hope is the first autobiography in history ever to be published by a Pope.

          6. An introspective Pope Francis has divulged some of the behind-the-scenes dynamics of the secret conclave that elected him pope and the.!

          Pope Francis | Biography

          Pope Francis was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on Dec.

          17, 1936 in Buenos Aires. His father was a railway worker who immigrated to Argentina from Italy, and his mother was a housewife of Italian origin. Bergoglio had four siblings. 

          After earning a secondary school degree as a chemical technician, Bergoglio felt a call to the priesthood as a Jesuit, joining the novitiate in 1958, at the age of 22.

          He was ordained a priest on Dec.

          13, 1969.

          “I am so excited for the Mass.

          In 1973 he made his perpetual vows in the Society of Jesus and the same year was elected Jesuit provincial for Argentina. He would go on to serve as a seminary rector, a pastor, a professor, and a spiritual director.

          In 1992 Fr.

          Bergoglio was consecrated an auxiliary bishop of the Buenos Aires archdiocese. He became the archdiocese’s coadjutor archbishop in 1997, and succeeded as archbishop the following year. St. John Paul II named Archbishop Bergoglio a cardinal in 2001.

          As archbishop of Buenos Aires, Bergog