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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.

Offices held 10

  1. 20 May 1992 CE – 3 June 1997 CE auxiliary bishop Has references
  2. 20 May 1992 CE – 3 June 1997 CE titular bishop Has references
  3. 3 June 1997 CE – 28 February 1998 CE coadjutor archbishop Has references
  4. 28 February 1998 CE – 13 March 2013 CE Archbishop of Buenos Aires Has references
  5. 30 November 1998 CE – 13 March 2013 CE diocesan bishop Has references
  6. External Ornaments of a Cardinal (not a bishop)
    21 February 2001 CE – 13 March 2013 CE cardinal priest Has references
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  1. 13 March 2013 CE – 21 April 2025 CE Pope Number 266 in the sequence Succeeded Benedict XVI Has references
  2. 13 March 2013 CE – 21 April 2025 CE Patriarch of the West Succeeded Benedict XVI

Family tree

The family as a list · 4

Family 4

Teachers and students

Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.

Pope Francis 266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)

Recorded events

What Pope Francis’s own record names in its history, in the order of the dates on the statements.

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