Vatican City – Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and He died on Monday:
December 17, 1936: Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest of five children of Mario José Bergoglio, accountant of Italy, and Regina María Isvori, daughter of Italian immigrants.
December 13, 1969: He ordered a priest with the Jesuit religious order, who would lead as provincial superior of Argentina during the murderous dictatorship of the country that began in the 1970s.
May 20, 1992: appointed auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires and in 1998 it happens to Cardinal Antonio Quarracino as archbishop of the Argentine capital.
February 21, 2001: elevated to cardinal By San Juan Pablo II.
May 2007: It helps to write the final document of the fifth meeting of the Latin American Bishops Conference in Aparecida, Brazil, synthesizing what would eventually become their concerns as a potato for poor and indigenous peoples and the environment and the need for a missionary church.
March 13, 2013: Chosen 266º PopeThe first of the Americas, the first Jesuit and the first to take the name of Francis, after San Francisco de Asís.
April 13, 2013: Create a kitchen cabinet from eight cardinals around the world to help him govern the Church and reorganize his bureaucracy.
May 12, 2013: Canoniza the “martyrs of another”, 813 Italians killed in 1480 for challenging the demands of the Turkish invaders to convert to Islam. With a ceremony, Francis almost doubled the 480 saints manufactured by San Juan Pablo II during his pontificate of the century, which at that time was more than all his predecessors combined for 500 years.
July 8, 2013: He makes the first trip outside Rome to the Sicilian Island of Lampedusa to meet with newly arrived migrants and denounces the “globalization of indifference” shown to possible refugees.
July 30, 2013: Declares “Who am I to judge?” When asked about a gay priest during a press conference, pointing out a more cozy position towards the LGBTQ+community.
November 26, 2013: issues a mission statement for their papacy in Evangelii Gaudium, (“The joy of the Gospel”), denouncing the global financial system that excludes the poor and stating that the Eucharist “is not an award for perfect medicine but a powerful medicine and the food of the weak.”
May 25, 2014: A Uncondent stop Pray on Wall by separating Israel from the city of Bethlehem from the West Bank, in a sample of support for the Palestinian cause.
June 8, 2014: Hosts Israeli and Palestinian presidents for peace prayers in the Vatican Jardines.
March 20, 2015: accepts the resignation of the “rights and privileges” of Cardinal Scottish Keith O’Brien after adult men accuse him of inappropriate sexual behavior.
June 18, 2015: Problems Your environmental manifesto “Laudato Si” (“Praise Be”), asking for a cultural revolution to correct the “structurally perverse” global economic system that exploits the poor and has turned the earth into “an immense pile of dirt.”
July 10, 2015: It is apologized in Bolivia for the sins and crimes of the Catholic Church against indigenous peoples during the conquest of the colonial era of the Americas.
September 8, 2015: Check the cancellation process to make it faster, cheaper and simpler so that divorced Catholics can get married again in the Church.
September 24, 2015: It challenges Congress to rediscover the ideals of the United States by acting on climate change, immigration and poverty reduction in the first discourse by a Pope in the United States Capitol.
November 29, 2015: opens the Jubilee of Mercy opening the sacred door of the cathedral in Bangui, Central African Republic, instead of in the Vatican.
February 12, 2016: He meets the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill During a stop in Havana and declares “We are brothers”, at the first meeting between a Pope and Patriarch in more than 1,000 years.
February 18, 2016: Pray for dead migrants on the border between the United States and Mexico, then he says that the then presidential candidate Donald Trump is “non -Christian” for wanting to build a border wall.
April 8, 2016: Open the way to let the Divorced and civilly married Catholics receive communion in a note to the foot of the document “Amoris Laetitia” (“The joy of love”).
April 16, 2016: Visit a field of refugees in Lesbos, Greece, and takes 12 Syrian Muslims to Rome aboard their papal plane in appeal for solidarity towards migrants.
September 19, 2016: It is questioned in a letter for four conservative cardinals seeking a clarification of their opening to divorced and married Catholics.
December 1, 2017: he declares in a meeting in Bangladesh with the refugees of Myanmar Rohingya who, “the presence of God today is also called Rohingya.”
January 19, 2018: Accuses the victims of slander During a visit to Chile, even more undermining the credibility of the Catholic Church. Subsequently, it orders a Vatican investigation into the abuse crisis of Chile.
April 12, 2018: Admits “serious errors” in trial in the sexual abuse scandal of Chile. Later, he summons Chilean bishops to Rome to ensure their resignations and invite victims of abuse to the Vatican to apologize.
August 3, 2018: declares the “inadmissible” capital punishment in all circumstances in a change to the official education of the Church.
July 28, 2018: Accept the resignation of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of the Cardinals College, orders penance and prayer waiting for investigation into accusations of inappropriate sexual behavior with minors and adults.
August 26, 2018: The retired ambassador to the Vatican, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano publishes the accusation of the bomb that claims that US and Vatican officials for two decades cover McCarrick’s inappropriate sexual behavior, requires Francis to resign.
September 22, 2018: The Vatican and China sign a historical agreement on the Bishop nominations.
October 14, 2018: Canonize the Salvadoran archbishop murdered Óscar Romero after his Santa process was held for decades by the conservative cardinals.
February 4, 2019: Signs the document of “Human Fraternity” with the IMAM of Al Azhar, establishing collaborative relationships between Catholics and Muslims.
February 16, 2019: Defrocks McCarrick after Vatican’s investigation finds that he sexually abused minors and adults.
February 21, 2019: Open Vatican first summit on child protectionIt warns bishops the action of faithful demand, not only the sentence of sexual abuse of the clergy.
May 9, 2019: issuing a new law of the Church that requires that the sexual abuse of the clergy is reported internally, although not to the police; It establishes procedures to investigate accused, cardinal and superior religious bishops.
October 25, 2019: Amazonian bishops apologize, tribal leaders after conservative activists steal indigenous statues of the Church of the Vatican area and throw them into the Tiber River in a show of opposition to the Pope.
November 24, 2019: declares the use and possession of “immoral” nuclear weapons during a visit to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
December 17, 2019: Abole the use of “Pontifical Secret” in cases of sexual abuse of the clergy, allowing bishops to share internal documentation on abusers with the application of the law.
February 12, 2020: He refuses to approve the ordination of married men as priests after appeals from Amazonian bishops, the problem of dodging in the document “Dear Amazonia” (“Amazon de Amazon”).
March 27, 2020: It offers lonely night prayer to the world that faces the pandemic of Coronavirus from the Paseo Marítimo de la Plaza de San Pedro.
October 4, 2020: Encyclical problems “Fratelli Tutti” (“Brothers all”), arguing that pandemic demonstrates that market capitalism theories failed and a new type of policy is needed to promote human fraternity.
November 10, 2020: The Vatican report in McCarrick finds the Vatican, US bishops, cardinals and potatoes that have not prolonged or dismissed reports of sexual misconduct, but harms Francis.
March 5-8, 2021: He becomes the first Pope to visit Iraq, meeting with his best Shiite Muslim clergy.
July 4, 2021: It undergoes intestinal surgery at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome, has 33 centimeters (13 inches) colon.
January 5, 2023: Presides in the funeral mass For Pope Benedict XVI.
January 24, 2023: declares In an Associated Press interview that “being homosexual is not a crime.”
March 29, 2023: He is admitted to the Gemelli Hospital in Rome by respiratory infection; It is launched on April 1.
June 7, 2023: Surgery is subjected to eliminate the tissue of the intestinal scar and repair a hernia on the abdominal wall.
October 4, 2023: Open a synod to make the church more receptive to the common faithful during which women can vote with bishops for the first time.
November 28, 2023: Cancel the visit to Dubai to address the UN climate conference and describe a new ecological manifesto “Laudado Deum” (“Praise God”) due to a new case of acute bronchitis.
December 16, 2023: The Vatican Court condemns Cardinal Angelo Becciu of embezzlement and condemns him to 5½ years in prison in one of several verdicts in a complicated financial trial that transmitted the dirty clothes of the city state and tested his justice system.
December 19, 2023: Approve the blessings for same -sex couples Whenever they do not look like marriage, causing a fierce opposition of conservative bishops in Africa, Asia and in other places.
July 5, 2024: Vatican excommunicates Francis’s main critic Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano for the schism.
September 10, 2024: about 600,000 people, half of the population of East Timor, Attend Francis’s Mass In Dili in what is believed to be the greatest participation for a papal event in terms of the proportion of the population.
December 26, 2024: Open the sacred door of the Rebibbia prison in Rome, two days after formally opening the 2025 jubilee.
January 16, 2025: It appears to use a Honda after a fall that bruised his right arm, just weeks after another apparent fallen bruised her chin.
February 14, 2025: It is hospitalized after an episode of bronchitis worsens and then becomes a complex lung infection and double pneumonia.
February 28, 2025: their doctors briefly consider to suspend the treatment after A respiratory crisis But he decides instead in an aggressive course that runs the risk of damage to the organs.
March 13, 2025: marks the 12th anniversary of his choice as a potato while he is hospitalized.
March 23, 2025: this Hospital released After 38 days of treatment, but it seemed weak and fragile that day when it appeared on a balcony to greet the crowd below.
April 17, 2025: still recovering from the double pneumonia, Francis maintains his tradition of Holy Thursday to spend time with less fortunate and visitors in the Regina Caeli prison in Rome. Although he says he could not perform the ritual of washing the feet of 12 people in a gesture of humility, he adds that he wanted to be with them and “do what Jesus did on Holy Thursday.”
