- Pope Francis - Wikipedia
Pope Francis [b] (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; [c] 17 December 1936 – 21 April 2025) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 13 March 2013 until his death in 2025 He was the first Jesuit pope, the first Latin American, and the first born or raised outside Europe since the 8th-century Syrian pope Gregory III
- Francis | Pope, Born, Death, Real Name, Laudato Si’, Facts - Britannica
Francis (born December 17, 1936, Buenos Aires, Argentina—died April 21, 2025, Vatican City) ushered in a new era of leadership in the Roman Catholic Church when he was elected pope in 2013
- Meaning, origin and history of the name Francis
Francis went on to renounce his father's wealth and devote his life to the poor, founding the Franciscan order of friars Later in his life he apparently received the stigmata Due to the renown of the saint, this name became widespread in Western Europe during the Middle Ages
- Pope Francis | USCCB
Pope Francis’ motto on his coat of arms, “miserando atque eligendo” is taken from a homily by Saint Bede, an English eighth-century Christian writer and doctor of the Church of the Gospel account of the call of Saint Matthew It roughly translates to “having mercy, he called him ”
- Pope Francis: Biography, Catholic Church Leader, Jorge Bergoglio
Pope Francis, born Jorge Bergoglio, was the first pope of the Roman Catholic Church from Latin America Read about his education, priesthood, death, and more
- Francis − a pope who cared deeply for the poor and opened up the . . .
A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before
- Pope Francis St. Francis - Conventual Franciscan Friars
As Saint Francis drew near his death he dictated a Testament, his final instruction to the brothers he was about to leave He opens by recommending three basic elements of his own conversion: “And the Lord Himself led me among the lepers and I showed mercy to them…And after the Lord gave me brothers, no one showed me what I had to do, but the Most High Himself revealed to me that I should
- The Encyclicals of Pope Francis - Inside The Vatican
Pope Francis published four encyclicals during his pontificate The first, Lumen Fidei, was written in collaboration with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in 2013, the year that Francis was elected (and Benedict stepped down; he had already begun writing the document) Three were written in the succeeding years 2015 (Laudato Sí), 2020 (Fratelli Tutti) and 2024 (Dilexit Nos)
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