Content deleted Content added
m Fixing style/layout errors |
m "Jesuits" is a bit clunky |
||
Line 142:
{{Catholic Church sidebar}}
'''Pope Francis''' ({{lang-la|Franciscus}}; {{lang-it|Francesco}}; {{lang-es|link=|Francisco}}; born '''Jorge Mario Bergoglio''';{{efn|Pronounced {{IPA|es|ˈxoɾxe ˈmaɾjo βeɾˈɣoɣljo|}} in Spanish, and {{IPA|it|berˈɡɔʎʎo|}} in Italian}} 17 December 1936) is head of the [[Catholic Church]] and [[sovereign]] of the [[Vatican City State]]. He is the first pope to be a member of the [[Society of Jesus]] (
Born in [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina, Bergoglio worked for a time as a [[bouncer]] and a [[janitor]] as a young man before training to be a chemist and working as a technician in a [[food science]] laboratory. After recovering from a severe illness of [[pneumonia]] and [[cyst]]s, he was inspired to join the Jesuits in 1958. He was [[Ordination#Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran and Anglican churches|ordained]] a [[Catholic priest]] in 1969, and from 1973 to 1979 was the Jesuit [[provincial superior]] in Argentina. He became the [[archbishop of Buenos Aires]] in 1998 and was created a [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|cardinal]] in 2001 by [[Pope John Paul II]]. He led the Argentine Church during the [[December 2001 riots in Argentina]]. The administrations of [[Néstor Kirchner]] and [[Cristina Fernández de Kirchner]] considered him to be a political rival.
| |||