Francisco, the modest pope who tried to change the church

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope number 266 of the Catholic Church, First Latin -Amarican pope and the First Jesuit From the story to take this position, he died on April 21, 2025.

On March 13, 2013, the conclave that was held after the resignation of Benedictus XVI Bergoglio chose as Pope, who expressed his willingness to be known as known as Francisco In honor of the holy of Assisi (“The man of poverty, the man of peace, the man who loves and keeps creation”, in his words). “How I would like a poor and the poor church,” he proclaimed three days after the end of the conclave.

Since the premiere, in which he greeted the believers from the balcony of the Basilica of San Pedro after he was chosen in the fifth mood on the second day of the conclave, Francisco connected to a one with a marked personal stampa renovation trip that increased admiration And great suspicion In the bosom of the church.

The December 17, 1936In the Buenos Aires district of Flores, the oldest of the five children. Nationality ArgentinaBefore he enters the seminar as the beginner of the Society of Jesus, a season worked as a chemical technician.

Francisco showed a variety of pastoral gestures that indicate simplicity, including his decision to be in the Santa Marta House Instead of papal stay in the Vatican apostolic palace that has been used by its predecessors since 1903.

After a year of pontificate, Francisco was one of the 278 possible candidates For him Nobel Prize for Peace From 2014, finally awarded to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai.

Allowed by bronchitis

On February 14, he canceled his agenda after he was admitted to the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital for bronchitis.

After a few weeks admitted, he recently made some public performances, in which he was weak.

Take

A special committee set up for the protection of Little victims of sexual abuse And for the fight against pedophile priests And also three committees for economic affairs. In an attempt to show a solid position before the abuse, Pope Francis gathered an anti -drugs in February 2019 that the entire episcopal hierarchy brought together in the Vatican.

Trips

In addition, he visited during the 11 years of pontificate 59 countriesMany of them from the Catholic minority, such as Egypt or Arab Emirates; And he moved to places far from Rome, such as Myanmar and Bangladesh.

So your Travel to Iraq (In March 2021) and his image pray between the ruins of the city of Mosul, a few meters from the Mosque Al Nuri de Mosul, symbol of the rise and fall of the Islamic State, the world turned.

Some gestures are also remembered mediating in conflicts International, including that of 12 April 2019, when the Pope knelt and the feet of the leaders in South Sudan kissed and kissed the peace process in this African country in an attempt.

After the Russian invasion in Ukraine, he visited the embassy before the holy chair to show him his “care for war” in what was described as an unprecedented gesture and called the Ukrainian president Volodimir Zenski, who manifested his “pain” to find a mediation path.