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Jorge Mario Bergoglio (fourth boy from the left in the third row from the top) at age 12, Salesian College (c. 1948–1949) Pope Francis was born as Jorge Mario Bergoglio on 17 December 1936 [18] in Flores, [19] a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. [18]
Another 90 cardinals were ineligible to participate in the conclave, for reasons of age. [3] The cardinal electors entered the Sistine Chapel to begin the conclave on 12 March 2013. [9] [10] On 13 March, after five ballots over two days, they elected Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, who took the papal name Francis ...
Jorge Mario Bergoglio (born 1936), made a cardinal on 21 February 2001, elected Pope on 13 March 2013. On 21 January 2001, Pope John Paul II announced plans to raise 37 prelates to the rank on cardinal at a consistory in February. He also said that at the consistory he would announce the names of two cardinals he named in pectore in 1998. [22]
Sources report that at some point, Ouellet threw his support behind Bergoglio; [92] by the first afternoon ballot—the fourth ballot of the conclave—Bergoglio became the clear front runner. On the fifth ballot, the cardinals, wishing to show a unified front, voted overwhelmingly in favor of Bergoglio, reportedly giving him at least 90 votes ...
Pope Francis: Conversations with Jorge Bergoglio: His Life in His Own Words is a biography of Jorge Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis in 2013. Written by Sergio Rubin , it is the only biography of him that appeared before his election as Pope.
In April 2005, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, is called to the Vatican after the death of Pope John Paul II to elect a new pope. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, a prominent German prelate, is elected Pope Benedict XVI; Cardinal Bergoglio receives the second-highest vote count.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio (elected as Francis in 2013). [19] [20] [21] Bergoglio was a papabile at the 2005 conclave [22] and was also considered a contender at the 2013 conclave [19] [20] [22] due to his being the reported "second-place finisher" at the 2005 conclave.
Since the Apostolic Age, the bishop of Rome, ... The most recent papal conclave occurred in 2013, when Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected as Pope Francis, ...