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Pope Francis
Franciscus la
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
- Child of Mario José Bergoglio and Regina María Sívori
- Dated 17 December 1936 CE – 21 April 2025 CE
Overview
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)Wikidata record description. Read Pope Francis in the Wikipedia reader.
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Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
Belonged to
Offices held 10
- 1973 CE – 1979 CE Provincial of the Jesuits of Argentina and Uruguay
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- 2005 CE – 2011 CE President of the Episcopal Conference of Argentina
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13 March 2013 CE – 21 April 2025 CE Pope Number 266 in the sequence Succeeded Benedict XVI Has references
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Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
Studied under 1
Recorded events
What Pope Francis’s own record names in its history, in the order of the dates on the statements.
- 13 December 1969 CE Priestly ordination in the Roman rite ↗
- 27 June 1992 CE Consecration ↗
- 21 February 2001 CE Cardinalate creation ↗
- 21 April 2025 CE Death and funeral of Pope Francis ↗
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