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| Pope Francis Fast Facts
ABC 7
September 4, 2015
http://www.abc-7.com/story/29959754/pope-francis-fast-facts
Here is a look at the life of Pope Francis, the current pope and first non-European pontiff of the modern era.
Personal:
Birth date: December 17, 1936
Birth place: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Birth name: Jorge Mario Bergoglio
Father: Mario Bergoglio
Mother: Regina (Sivori) Bergoglio
Religion: Roman Catholic
Other Facts:
The first Jesuit pope.
The first Latin American pope and the first from the Americas.
The first non-European pope in over 1,000 years.
Reportedly received the second most votes in the 2005 papal election.
As archbishop of Buenos Aires, Bergoglio took the bus to work and cooked his own meals.
Pope Francis had part of one lung removed when he was a young man, but is in good health, according to the Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi.
Timeline:
December 13, 1969 - Is ordained as a priest.
1973-1979 - Serves as provincial for Argentina.
1980-1986 - Rector of the Philosophical and Theological Faculty of San Miguel.
June 3, 1997 - Appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Buenos Aires.
February 28, 1998 - Succeeds Cardinal Antonio Quarracino as archbishop of Buenos Aires.
February 21, 2001 - Is made a cardinal by Pope John Paul II.
November 8, 2005-November 8, 2011 - President of the Bishops' Conference of Argentina.
February 11, 2013 - Pope Benedict XVI announces that he will retire, effective February 28th. He cites his "advanced age" as the reason.
February 28, 2013 - Pope Benedict XVI leaves the Vatican. At 8pm local time (2pm EST), his reign officially ends.
March 13, 2013 - Bergoglio is elected the 266th pope by 115 cardinals on the second day and the fifth ballot of the cardinals' conclave. White smoke appears above the Sistine Chapel just after 7pm local time. He takes the name Francis and appears on the balcony at St. Peter's to greet the crowd.
March 14, 2013 - Pope Francis celebrates a televised Mass in the Sistine Chapel at 5 p.m. (noon ET).
March 19, 2013 - Pope Francis is inaugurated before a crowd of tens of thousands in St. Peter's Square.
March 23, 2013 - Pope Francis flies to Castel Gandolfo to meet with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. The Vatican says this is the first time in the history of the church that the current pope has met with his predecessor.
March 26, 2013 - The Vatican announces that Pope Francis has decided to continue staying in a suite in the Vatican hotel instead of moving into the papal apartment.
April 13, 2013 - It is announced that an international council of eight cardinals has been appointed to advise Pope Francis in reforming the Catholic Church.
July 29, 2013 - During his first news conference Pope Francis makes the statement, "If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?" while discussing the gay and lesbian community within the church.
September 19, 2013 - An interview is released in which Pope Francis says that the church has the right to express its opinions but not to "interfere spiritually" in the lives of gays and lesbians.
November 26, 2013 - Pope Francis releases "Evangelii Gaudium" (The Joy of the Gospel), an 85-page call for the church to rethink some traditions.
December 11, 2013 - Pope Francis is named Time magazine's person of the year.
December 24, 2013 - The pope visits with Pope-emeritus Benedict XVI at the monastery Mater Ecclesia, where the pope-emertus lives. Francis later visits children in a local hospital.
December 24-25, 2013 - At St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis celebrates his first midnight mass as head of the Roman Catholic Church.
December 25, 2013 - From the basilica's balcony facing St. Peter's Square, the pope delivers his Christmas message and blessing to a crowd of 70,000.
March 5, 2014 - In a newspaper interview, Pope Francis reaffirms the Catholic Church's opposition to same-sex marriage, but suggests that it could support some types of civil unions.
April 27, 2014 - Presides over the Canonization of Blesseds, installing popes John XXIII and John Paul II as saints. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI attends the ceremony as a guest.
July 7, 2014 - In a homily given during a private Mass with six victims of church sexual abuse, Pope Francis apologizes for the abuse and asks for forgiveness, pledging that Catholic bishops "will be held accountable" for failing to protect children.
August 30, 2015 - Pope Francis announces that priests around the world will be able to forgive the "sin of abortion" during the Catholic Church's "Year of Mercy" beginning on December 8 and ending on November 20, 2016.
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