INSTALLATION OF THE NEW POPE, PAPACY LEAVES EUROPE AFTER 1,300 YEARS
[First South American, First Jesuit and First Francis]
With a puff of white smoke from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and to the cheers of thousands of faithfuls, a gathering of Catholic cardinals picked a new Pope from among their midst in the Vatican city on March 13, 2013, choosing the cardinal from Argentina, the first South American to ever lead the Church.
NEW POPE FRANCIS-I: JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO
• Born : Dec. 17, 1936 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Italian Immigrants.
• Education : Studied at Theological faculty of San Miguel. Received licentiate in philosophy.
• Languages : Spanish, Italian and German.
• Feb. 28,1998: Became archbishop of Buenos Aires.
• Feb. 21, 2001: Proclaimed cardinal by Pope John Paul II.
• The first Jesuit pope, he spent entire career at home in Argentina, overseeing churches and shoe-leather priests.
• Credited with modernizing an Argentine church that had
been among the most conservative in Latin America.
• Bergoglio couldn't prevent Argentina from becoming the first Latin American country to legalize gay marriage, or stop its President, Cristina Fernandez, from promoting free
contraception and artificial insemination.
• Critics also accuse him of failing to stand up publicly
against the country's military dictatorship from 1976-1983.
• Bergoglio had a lung removed due to infection when he was a teenager.
"You know that the work of the conclave is to give a bishop to Rome. It seems as if my brother cardinals
went to find him from the end of the earth. Thank you
for the welcome."
-In an address to the crowd in St. Peter's Square
The new Pope, 76, Jorge Mario Bergoglio will be called Francis, the 226th Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. He is also the first non-European leader of the
Church since the 8th century.
Francis, who had been the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, the first Pope not born in Europe since Columbus alighted in the New World.
In choosing him, the cardinals sent a powerful message that the future of the Church lies in the global
south, home to the bulk of the world's Catholics.
With a puff of white smoke from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and to the cheers of thousands of faithfuls, a gathering of Catholic cardinals picked a new Pope from among their midst in the Vatican city on March 13, 2013, choosing the cardinal from Argentina, the first South American to ever lead the Church.
NEW POPE FRANCIS-I: JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO
• Born : Dec. 17, 1936 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Italian Immigrants.
• Education : Studied at Theological faculty of San Miguel. Received licentiate in philosophy.
• Languages : Spanish, Italian and German.
• Feb. 28,1998: Became archbishop of Buenos Aires.
• Feb. 21, 2001: Proclaimed cardinal by Pope John Paul II.
• The first Jesuit pope, he spent entire career at home in Argentina, overseeing churches and shoe-leather priests.
• Credited with modernizing an Argentine church that had
been among the most conservative in Latin America.
• Bergoglio couldn't prevent Argentina from becoming the first Latin American country to legalize gay marriage, or stop its President, Cristina Fernandez, from promoting free
contraception and artificial insemination.
• Critics also accuse him of failing to stand up publicly
against the country's military dictatorship from 1976-1983.
• Bergoglio had a lung removed due to infection when he was a teenager.
"You know that the work of the conclave is to give a bishop to Rome. It seems as if my brother cardinals
went to find him from the end of the earth. Thank you
for the welcome."
-In an address to the crowd in St. Peter's Square
The new Pope, 76, Jorge Mario Bergoglio will be called Francis, the 226th Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. He is also the first non-European leader of the
Church since the 8th century.
Francis, who had been the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, the first Pope not born in Europe since Columbus alighted in the New World.
In choosing him, the cardinals sent a powerful message that the future of the Church lies in the global
south, home to the bulk of the world's Catholics.
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