Biography of Our New Pope Francis : TURNBACK TO GOD

Biography
of Our New Pope Francis : TURNBACK TO GOD

Biography of Our New
Pope Francis

Posted: 14 Mar 2013 12:12 AM PDT

Pope Francis,
formerly Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J., Archbishop of Buenos Aires,
Argentina, Ordinary for Eastern-rite faithful in
Argentina who lack an Ordinary of their own rite, was born on 17 December
1936 in Buenos Aires. He studied as and holds a degree as a chemical
technician, but then chose the priesthood and entered the seminary of Villa
Devoto.

On 11 March 1958
he moved to the novitiate of the Company of Jesus where he finished studies
in the humanities in Chile. In 1963, on returning to Buenos Aires, he
obtained a degree in philosophy at the St. Joseph major seminary of San
Miguel.

Between 1964 and
1965 he taught literature and psychology at the Immacolata College in Santa
Fe and then in 1966 he taught the same subjects at the University of El
Salvador, in Buenos Aires.

From 1967 to 1970
he studied theology at the St. Joseph major seminary of San Miguel where he
obtained a degree. On 13 December 1969 he was ordained a priest. From 1970 to
1971 he completed the third probation at Alcala de Henares, Spain, and on 22
April 1973, pronounced his perpetual vows.

He was novice
master at Villa Varilari in San Miguel from 1972 to 1973, where he also
taught theology. On 31 July 1973 he was elected as Provincial for Argentina,
a role he served as for six years.

From 1980 to 1986
he was rector of the Philosophical and Theological Faculty of San Miguel as
well as pastor of the Patriarca San Jose parish in the Diocese of San Miguel.
In March of 1986 he went to Germany to finish his doctoral thesis. The
superiors then sent him to the University of El Salvador and then to Cordoba
where he served as a confessor and spiritual director.

On 20 May 1992,
John Paul II appointed him titular Bishop of Auca and Auxiliary of Buenos
Aires, He received episcopal consecration in the Cathedral of Buenos Aires
from Cardinal Antonio Quarracino, Apostolic Nunzio Ubaldo Calabresi, and
Bishop Emilio Ognenovich. of Mercedes-Lujan on 27 June of that year.

On 3 June 1997 he
was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Buenos Aires and succeeded Cardinal
Antonio Quarracino on 28 February 1998. He was Adjunct Relator General
of the 10th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, October
2001. He served as President of the Bishops’ Conference of Argentina
from 8 November 2005 until 8 November 2011.

He was created
and proclaimed Cardinal by Blessed John Paul II in the consistory of 21
February 2001, of the Title of S. Roberto Bellarmino (St. Robert Bellarmine).

He was a member
of: The Congregations for Divine Worship and Discipline of the
Sacraments; for the Clergy; and for Institutes of Consecrated Life and
Societies of Apostolic Life; the Pontifical Council for the Family;
and the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.

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