Argentina jorge bergoglio biography

Pope Francis was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on Dec. 17, 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 , at the age of

He was ordained a priest on Dec.

13, In he made his perpetual vows in the Society of Jesus and the same year was elected Jesuit provincial for Argentina.

Argentina jorge bergoglio biography

He would go on to serve as a seminary rector, a pastor, a professor, and a spiritual director.

In Fr. Bergoglio was consecrated an auxiliary bishop of the Buenos Aires archdiocese. He became the archdiocese’s coadjutor archbishop in , and succeeded as archbishop the following year.

St. John Paul II named Archbishop Bergoglio a cardinal in

As archbishop of Buenos Aires, Bergoglio was known for his humble demeanor