From Buenos Aires to Rome: Key dates in the life of Pope Francis

VATICAN CITY – Key events successful the beingness of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died connected Monday:

Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario Bergoglio is calved successful Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest of 5 children to Mario Jose Bergoglio, an accountant from Italy, and Regina María Sívori, the girl of Italian immigrants.

Dec. 13, 1969: Ordained a clergyman with the Jesuit spiritual order, which helium would pb arsenic Argentina provincial superior during the country’s murderous dictatorship that began successful the 1970s.

May 20, 1992: Named auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires and successful 1998 succeeds Cardinal Antonio Quarracino arsenic archbishop of the Argentine capital.

Feb. 21, 2001: Elevated to cardinal by St. John Paul II.

May 2007: Helps draught the last papers of the 5th gathering of the Latin American bishops league successful Aparecida, Brazil, synthesizing what would yet go his concerns arsenic pope for the poor, Indigenous peoples and the situation and the request for a missionary church.

March 13, 2013: Elected 266th pope, the archetypal from the Americas, the archetypal Jesuit and the archetypal to instrumentality the sanction of Francis, aft St. Francis of Assisi.

April 13, 2013: Creates a room furniture of 8 cardinals from astir the globe to assistance him govern the religion and reorganize its bureaucracy.

May 12, 2013: Canonizes the “Martyrs of Otranto,” 813 Italians slain successful 1480 for defying demands by Turkish invaders to person to Islam. With 1 ceremony, Francis astir doubled the 480 saints made by St. John Paul II implicit his quarter-century pontificate, which astatine the clip was much than each his predecessors combined for 500 years.

July 8, 2013: Makes archetypal travel extracurricular Rome to the Sicilian land of Lampedusa to conscionable with recently arrived migrants and denounces the “globalization of indifference” shown to would-be refugees.

July 30, 2013: Declares “Who americium I to judge?” erstwhile asked astir a cheery clergyman during a quality conference, signaling a much welcoming stance toward LGBTQ+ community.

Nov. 26, 2013: Issues ngo connection for his papacy successful Evangelii Gaudium, (“The Joy of the Gospel”), denouncing the satellite fiscal strategy that excludes the mediocre and declaring the Eucharist is “not a prize for the cleanable but a almighty medicine and nourishment for the weak.”

May 25, 2014: Makes an unscheduled stop to commune astatine partition separating Israel from West Bank municipality of Bethlehem, successful a amusement of enactment for the Palestinian cause.

June 8, 2014: Hosts Israeli and Palestinian presidents for bid prayers successful the Vatican gardens.

March 20, 2015: Accepts the resignation of the “rights and privileges” of Scottish Cardinal Keith O’Brien aft big men impeach him of intersexual misconduct.

June 18, 2015: Issues his biology manifesto “Laudato Si” (“Praised Be”), calling for a taste gyration to close the “structurally perverse” planetary economical strategy that exploits the mediocre and has turned Earth into “an immense heap of filth."

July 10, 2015: Apologizes successful Bolivia for the sins and crimes of the Catholic Church against Indigenous peoples during the colonial-era conquest of the Americas.

Sept. 8, 2015: Overhauls the annulment process to marque it faster, cheaper and simpler truthful divorced Catholics tin remarry successful the church.

Sept. 24, 2015: Challenges Congress to rediscover America’s ideals by acting connected clime change, migration and poorness simplification successful the archetypal code by a pope astatine the U.S. Capitol.

Nov. 29, 2015: Inaugurates the Jubilee of Mercy by opening the Holy Door of the cathedral successful Bangui, Central African Republic, alternatively than astatine the Vatican.

Feb. 12, 2016: Meets Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill during a stopover successful Havana and declares “We are brothers,” successful archetypal specified gathering betwixt a pope and patriarch successful implicit 1,000 years.

Feb. 18, 2016: Prays for dormant migrants astatine the U.S.-Mexico border, aboriginal says then-presidential campaigner Donald Trump is “not a Christian” for wanting to physique a borderline wall.

April 8, 2016: Opens the mode to letting divorced and civilly remarried Catholics person Communion successful a footnote to the papers “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”).

April 16, 2016: Visits a exile campy successful Lesbos, Greece, and brings 12 Syrian Muslims to Rome aboard his papal level successful an entreaty for solidarity toward migrants.

Sept. 19, 2016: Is questioned successful a missive by 4 blimpish cardinals seeking clarification of his opening to divorced and remarried Catholics.

Dec. 1, 2017: Declares astatine a gathering successful Bangladesh with Myanmar Rohingya refugees that, “The beingness of God contiguous is besides called Rohingya.”

Jan. 19, 2018: Accuses enactment maltreatment victims of slander during a sojourn to Chile, further undermining Catholic Church’s credibility. Subsequently orders a Vatican probe into Chile’s maltreatment crisis.

April 12, 2018: Admits to “grave errors” successful judgement successful Chile’s enactment maltreatment scandal. Later summons Chilean bishops to Rome to unafraid their resignations and invites maltreatment victims to Vatican to apologize.

Aug. 3, 2018: Declares superior punishment “inadmissible” nether each circumstances successful a alteration to authoritative religion teaching.

July 28, 2018: Accepts the resignation of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick from the College of Cardinals, orders him to penance and supplication pending an probe into allegations of intersexual misconduct with minors and adults.

Aug. 26, 2018: Retired Vatican ambassador Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano publishes bombshell accusation claiming U.S. and Vatican officials for 2 decades covered up McCarrick’s intersexual misconduct, demands Francis resign.

Sept. 22, 2018: Vatican and China motion landmark statement implicit bishop nominations.

Oct. 14, 2018: Canonizes slain Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero aft his saint-making process was held up for decades by blimpish cardinals.

Feb. 4, 2019: Signs the “Human Fraternity” papers with the imam of Al Azhar, establishing collaborative relations betwixt Catholics and Muslims.

Feb. 16, 2019: Defrocks McCarrick aft Vatican probe finds helium sexually abused minors and adults.

Feb. 21, 2019: Opens first Vatican acme connected kid protection, warns bishops the faithful request action, not conscionable condemnation of clergy intersexual abuse.

May 9, 2019: Issues caller religion instrumentality requiring clergy enactment maltreatment to beryllium reported in-house, though not to police; establishes procedures for investigating accused bishops, cardinals and spiritual superiors.

Oct. 25, 2019: Apologizes to Amazonian bishops, tribal leaders aft blimpish activists bargain Indigenous statues from Vatican-area religion and propulsion them into Tiber River successful amusement of absorption to the pope.

Nov. 24, 2019: Declares the usage and possession of atomic weapons “immoral” during a sojourn to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

Dec. 17, 2019: Abolishes usage of “pontifical secret” successful clergy enactment maltreatment cases, allowing bishops to stock interior documentation astir abusers with instrumentality enforcement.

Feb. 12, 2020: Declines to o.k. ordination of joined men arsenic priests aft appeals from Amazonian bishops, sidestepping contented successful papers “Querida Amazonia” (“Beloved Amazon”).

March 27, 2020: Delivers solitary evening supplication to the satellite facing the coronavirus pandemic from the promenade of St. Peter’s Square.

Oct. 4, 2020: Issues encyclical “Fratelli Tutti” (“Brothers All,”), arguing the pandemic proves theories of marketplace capitalism failed and a caller benignant of authorities is needed to beforehand quality fraternity.

Nov. 10, 2020: Vatican study into McCarrick finds Vatican, U.S. bishops, cardinals and popes played down oregon dismissed reports of intersexual misconduct but spares Francis.

March 5-8, 2021: Becomes archetypal pope to sojourn Iraq, gathering with its apical Shiite Muslim cleric.

July 4, 2021: Undergoes intestinal country astatine Rome’s Gemelli hospital, has 33 centimeters (13 inches) of colon removed.

Jan. 5, 2023: Presides astatine ceremonial Mass for Pope Benedict XVI.

Jan. 24, 2023: Declares in an Associated Press interview that “Being homosexual is not a crime.”

March 29, 2023: Is admitted to Rome's Gemelli infirmary for respiratory infection; is released April 1.

June 7, 2023: Undergoes country to region intestinal scar insubstantial and repair a hernia successful the abdominal wall.

Oct. 4, 2023: Opens a synod connected making the religion much responsive to mean faithful during which women are allowed to ballot alongside bishops for the archetypal time.

Nov. 28, 2023: Cancels sojourn to Dubai to code U.N. clime league and outline a caller ecological manifesto “Laudate Deum” ("Praise God") due to the fact that of a caller lawsuit of acute bronchitis.

Dec. 16, 2023: Vatican tribunal convicts Cardinal Angelo Becciu of embezzlement and sentences him to 5½ years successful situation successful 1 of respective verdicts successful a analyzable fiscal proceedings that aired the metropolis state’s soiled laundry and tested its justness system.

Dec. 19, 2023: Approves blessings for same-sex couples provided they don't lucifer marriage, sparking fierce absorption from blimpish bishops successful Africa, Asia and elsewhere.

July 5, 2024: Vatican excommunicates starring Francis critic Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano for schism.

Sept. 10, 2024: Some 600,000 people, fractional of East Timor's population, attend Francis' Mass successful Dili successful what is believed to beryllium the biggest turnout for a papal lawsuit successful presumption of the proportionality of the population.

Dec. 26, 2024: Opens the beatified doorway of Rome's Rebibbia prison, 2 days aft formally inaugurating the 2025 Jubilee.

Jan. 16, 2025: Appears wearing a sling aft a autumn that bruised his close arm, conscionable weeks aft different evident autumn bruised his chin.

Feb. 14, 2025: Is hospitalized aft a bout of bronchitis worsens and past develops into a analyzable lung corruption and treble pneumonia.

Feb. 28, 2025: His doctors concisely see suspending attraction aft a breathing crisis but decides alternatively connected an assertive people that risks organ damage.

March 13, 2025: Marks the 12th day of his predetermination arsenic pope portion hospitalized.

March 23, 2025: Is released from the hospital aft 38 days of attraction but looked anemic and frail earlier that time erstwhile appearing connected a balcony to greet the assemblage below.

April 17, 2025: Still recovering from treble pneumonia, Francis keeps his Holy Thursday contented of spending clip with the slightest fortunate, visiting inmates astatine Rome's Regina Caeli prison. Although helium says helium couldn’t execute the ritual of washing the feet of 12 radical successful a motion of humility, helium adds helium wanted to beryllium with them and “do what Jesus did connected Holy Thursday.”

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