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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
Pope
auxiliary bishop
titular bishop
Offices on record
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
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
Family
The family of Pope Francis
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 4
Family 4
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
Studied under 1
Pope Francis 266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025) History
Recorded events
What Pope Francis’s own record names in its history, in the order of the dates on the statements.
What this means
Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began. Each date is the one on the statement itself; an event with none is named after the line. It does not imply that these are all the events in its history, or that Wikidata ranks the events by importance.
- 13 December 1969 CE Priestly ordination in the Roman rite ↗ Has references
- 27 June 1992 CE Consecration ↗
- 21 February 2001 CE Cardinalate creation ↗
- 21 April 2025 CE Death and funeral of Pope Francis ↗
Sources
Sources and evidence
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21 statements on this record
- 12 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 9 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
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- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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