On March 13, 2013, after the fifth vote in the conclaveall members of the Cardinal College chose as the Supreme Pontiff number 266 of the Roman Catholic Church Franciscowho ended up becoming the successor of the BENEDICT XVI PAPA.
Francisco was the bishop of RomeVicar of Christhead of the Episcopal College and pastor of the “Universal Church on Earth” for 12 years and 39 days, until his death last Monday, April 21, after suffering a cerebral infarction at 88 years in his residence in the house of Santa Marta, where he lived for more than a decade throughout his papacy.
Born in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentinain December 1936, before entering the priestly training seminar for young Argentines, Francisco was a professor of literature and psychology in the province of Santa Feuntil he was ordained a priest in the province of Córdova At 32, where he lived for a five years.
According to Pope’s words John Paul II, “His spirituality and character caught the attention of the cardinals“, And for that same reason he appointed Francisco as the titular bishop From the diocese of Oca, Spain, at 55. However, before becoming a potato, the Argentine used his Secular name.
Pope Francis’s full and secular name
The word is used within the Catholic Church “secular”, from Latin “SAECULARE“, what does it mean “world“Therefore, given this situation, someone’s secular name refers to” what mundane or the opposite of the spiritual “, and that is why the potatoes must change the name when they become pontiffs.
Before being chosen as Pope number 266, Francisco used his secular name: Jorge Mario Bergoglio Sivoriwith which he was born on December 17, 1936 in the neighborhood of Flowerslocated in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina; where he became the first son of the five that Mario José Bergoglio and María Regina Sivori had.
The name change occurred after obtaining the necessary majority in the fifth vote of the conclave in 2013, so Cardinal Bergoglio chose Francisco as his pontifical name in honor of San Francisco de Asísan Italian saint of the thirteenth century that founded the Franciscan order and that was characterized by its humility.
San Francisco de Asís gave his life to the homeless And for that reason Pope Francis declared in March 2013 that he would like a Poor Roman Catholic Church And for the poor: “For me, he is the man of poverty, the man of peace, the man who loves and the man who guard the creation,” added the pontiff in his speech.
A year later, in April 2014, Francisco revealed that other names arose, such as Adriano, for the Pope Adriano VI, who was characterized by being a reformist pontiff; Like Clemente, for the Pope Clemente XIV, the pontiff who prohibited the participation of the Jesuits in 1774, “as a small revenge.”
“However, I opted for Francisco for a few words that the Brazilian cardinal told me Claudio Hummes When I was reaching most votes to be chosen Pope. He told me not to forget the poor And I did not, “explained the first Latin American father, who was characterized by accepting various points of view.
Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, I have scholars the first Jesuit Pope in 2013. A Humble Reformer, I have mushrooms the poor, mercy, & dialogue.
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– Society of Jesus (@jesuitsgobal) April 22, 2025