Here is a biography of the new Bishop of Rome and our new pope! Pope
Francis
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J., Archbishop of Buenos
Aires, Argentina, Ordinary for Eastern-rite faithful in Argentina who lack an
Ordinary of their own rite.
Cardinal
Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born on 17 December 1936 in Buenos Aires. He was
ordained for the Jesuits on 13
December 1969 during his theological studies at the
Theological Faculty of San Miguel.
He was novice master in San Miguel, where he also
taught theology. He was Provincial for Argentina (1973-1979) and rector of the
Philosophical and Theological Faculty of San Miguel (1980-1986). After
completing his doctoral dissertation in Germany, he served as a confessor and
spiritual director in Córdoba.
On 20 May 1992 he was appointed titular Bishop of
Auca and Auxiliary of Buenos Aires, receiving episcopal consecration on 27
June. On 3 June 1997 was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Buenos Aires and
succeeded Cardinal Antonio Quarracino on 28 February 1998. He is also Ordinary
for Eastern-rite faithful in Argentina who lack an Ordinary of their own rite.
Adjunct Relator General of the 10th Ordinary
General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, October 2001.
He served as President of the Bishops' Conference
of Argentina from 8 November 2005 until 8 November 2011.
Created and proclaimed Cardinal by the Bl. John
Paul II in the consistory of 21 February 2001, of the Title of S. Roberto
Bellarmino (St. Robert Bellarmine).
Member of: Congregations: for Divine Worship and
Discipline of the Sacraments; for the Clergy; for Institutes of Consecrated
Life and Societies of Apostolic Life ;Pontifical Council for the
Family;Pontifical Commission for Latin America.
source: internet
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