Pope Francis returned to the House of the Father
On Monday in the octave of Easter, 21 April this year, Jorge Mario Bergoglio SJ, Pope Francis, returned to the House of the Father. He was the 266th Pope and was the head of the Catholic Church from 13 March 2013 to 21 April 2025.
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Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born on 17 December 1936 in Buenos Aires, as the son of Italian immigrants. He graduated from a chemical technical school and then chose the path of priesthood, entering the diocesan seminary in Villa Devoto. On 11 March 1958, he entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus. He completed his humanistic studies in Chile and returned to Argentina in 1963 to complete his philosophy studies at the Colegio de San José in San Miguel. From 1964 to 1965 he taught literature and psychology at the Immaculate Conception College in Santa Fé, and in 1966 he taught the same subject at the Colegio del Salvatore in Buenos Aires. From 1967 to 1970 he studied theology at the Faculty of Theology of the Colegio de San José.
On 13 December 1969 he was ordained a priest by Archbishop Ramón José Castellano. From 1970 to 1971 he continued his studies at the University of Alcalá de Henares in Spain, and on 22 April 1973 he made his religious profession as a Jesuit. On his return to Argentina, he was master of novices at Villa Barilari in San Miguel; professor at the Faculty of Theology in San Miguel; member of the consulate of the San Miguel Province of the Society of Jesus, and rector of the Colegio Máximo de San José.
On 31 July 1973, 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 he was again a rector of the Colegio Máximo de San José and also a parish priest, again in San Miguel. In March 1986, he went to Germany to complete his doctoral thesis; his superiors then sent him to the Colegio del Salvador in Buenos Aires and then to the Jesuit church in the city of Córdoba as spiritual director and confessor.
On 20 May 1992, Pope John Paul II appointed him titular bishop of Auca and auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires. On 27 May, he was ordained bishop in the cathedral by Cardinal Antonio Quarracino, Archbishop of Buenos Aires. He chose as his episcopal motto: Miserando atque eligendo, and on his coat of arms he placed the IHS, the symbol of the Society of Jesus.
On 3 June 1997, he was elevated to the dignity of Archbishop Coadjutor of Buenos Aires. Not even nine months had passed when, following the death of Cardinal Quarracino, he succeeded him on 28 February 1998 as Archbishop, Primate of Argentina and Ordinary for the faithful of the Eastern Rite in Argentina, who do not have an Ordinary of their own rite.
Three years later, at a consistory on 21 February 2001, Pope John Paul II appointed him a cardinal, granting him the titular presbyteral church of San Roberto Bellarmino. In 2002, he declined to be nominated as president of the Argentine Bishops' Conference, but was elected three years later and then re-confirmed in 2008 for another three-year term. In April 2005, he took part in the conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI.
On 13 March 2013, he was elected the 266th Successor of St Peter and took the name Francis.
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