A major event in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died Monday:
December 17, 1936: Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and five children from Italy's accountant Mario Jose Bergoglio, and the daughter of Italian immigrants Regina María Sívori.
December 13, 1969: During the dictatorship that began in the 1970s with murder in the country, he would order a priest of the Jesuit religious order, who would serve as a provincial superior in Argentina.
May 20, 1992: He was appointed as the auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires and replaced Cardinal Antonio Qualarasino, the Archbishop of the Argentina capital in 1998.
February 21, 2001: St. John Paul II was promoted to Cardinal.
May 2007: Helping to draft the final document of the fifth meeting of the Latin American Bishops' Conference in Aparecida, Brazil, which combines the concerns that ultimately become his as the Pope, the indigenous peoples and the environment and the need for missionary churches.
March 13, 2013: The first pope was elected as the 266th pope, the first from America, the first Jesuit, and the first pope named after St. Francis of Assisi.
April 13, 2013: Create a kitchen cabinet from eight cardinals around the world to help him manage the church and reorganize the bureaucracy.
May 12, 2013: In 813, the Italians were criticized as “the Martyrs of Otranto” in 1480 because the Turkish invaders ignored the demands of Islam. In one ceremony, Francis nearly doubled the 480 saints produced by St. John Paul II on his quarter-century purpose, at that time, more than all of his predecessors combined for a total of 500 years.
July 8, 2013: For the first time traveling to the outskirts of Rome to Lampedusa, Sicily, to meet new immigrants and condemn the “indifferent globalization” that may become refugees.
July 30, 2013: Statement “Who should I judge?” When asked about the gay pastor at the press conference, a more enthusiastic stance was made to the LGBTQ+ community.
November 26, 2013: A mission statement explains that in Evangelii Gaudium (“Joy of the Gospel”), he condemned the world financial system that excluded the poor and declared the Eucharist “is not a perfect prize, but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.”
May 25, 2014: To support the support of the Palestinian cause.
June 8, 2014: The host Israel and the Palestinian president held a peace prayer in the Vatican garden.
March 20, 2015: Accepted the resignation of Scottish Cardinal Keith O'Brien after an adult man accused him of sexual misconduct.
June 18, 2015: His environmental declaration, Laudato Si (“Praise Be”), called on a Cultural Revolution to correct a “structurally improper” global economic system that exploited the poor and turned the earth into “huge dirt.”
July 10, 2015: During the colonial conquest of America, in Bolivia, the Catholic Church apologized for the sins and crimes against the indigenous peoples.
September 8, 2015: The abolition process was thoroughly improved to make it faster, cheaper, and simpler, so divorced Catholics could remarry in the church.
September 24, 2015: Challenge Congress rediscovers American ideals through the first speech of the Pope at the U.S. Capitol.
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November 29, 2015: The Holy Gate of the Cathedral was opened on Bangui, the Central African Republic, instead of the Vatican, and the Jubilee of Mercy was opened.
February 12, 2016: During the stopover in Havana, during the first meeting between the pope and the patriarch for more than 1,000 years, we met with Russian Orthodox pastor Kirill, and declared “we are brothers.”
February 18, 2016: Later, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump prayed for the dead on the U.S.-Mexico border to build a border wall.
April 8, 2016: The way for the divorced and folk remarried Catholics to get communication in the footnotes opened the way with the footnotes of “amoris laetitia” (“Joy of Love”).
April 16, 2016: Visit a refugee camp in Lesbos, Greece and bring 12 Syrian Muslims to his papal plane to call for solidarity with immigrants.
September 19, 2016: Questioned in letters from four conservative cardinals seeking clarification on his openness to Catholics who have divorced and remarried.
December 1, 2017: At a meeting between Bangladesh and Myanmar Rohingya refugees, announced: “The existence of God is also called Rohingya today.”
January 19, 2018: During his visit to Chile, accusing victims of sexual abuse further undermined the credibility of the Catholic Church. Subsequently, the Vatican investigated the Chilean abuse crisis.
April 12, 2018: Acknowledged “serious mistakes” in judgments in Chile's sexual abuse scandal. Later, the Bishop of Chile was summoned to Rome to secure his resignation and invited victims of abuse to apologize to the Vatican.
August 3, 2018: In changing the teaching of the official church, an “unacceptable” death penalty is declared under any circumstances.
July 28, 2018: Received Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the resignation of Cardinal College, and ordered him to repent and pray until an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by minors and adults.
August 26, 2018: Retired Vatican Ambassador Carlo Maria Vigano made a bombshell charge that demanded that we and Vatican officials cover up McCarrick's sexual misconduct for twenty years and demanded that Francis resign.
September 22, 2018: Vatican and China’s landmark agreement for bishop nominations.
October 14, 2018: Archbishop Romero of El Salvador was killed after decades of saint making process by the conservative cardinal.
February 4, 2019: The “Brotherhood of Humanity” document was signed with Al Azhar's Imam, establishing a cooperative relationship between Catholics and Muslims.
February 16, 2019: Defrocks McCarrick after the Vatican investigation found him sexually abused minors and adults.
February 21, 2019: The bishop warned of faithful demand for action, not just condemning the sexual abuse of clergy, activated the first summit of the Vatican.
May 9, 2019: New church laws are proposed that internal reports of sexual abuse by clergy, although not police officers; establish procedures to investigate the defendants’ bishops, cardinals and religious superiors.
October 25, 2019: Conservative activists stole the indigenous statue from churches in the Vatican area and threw it into the Tibre River to steal it to the Pope and apologize to the Amazon Bishop.
November 24, 2019: It is “immoral” to declare and possess nuclear weapons during a visit to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
December 17, 2019: In cases of sexual abuse by clergy, the use of “religious secrets” is abolished so that bishops can share internal documents about abusers through law enforcement.
February 12, 2020: Refusal to approve the appointment of a married man as a pastor after the appeal of the Amazon bishop, avoiding the issue in the document “Querida Amazonia” (“beloved Amazon”).
March 27, 2020: Provide lonely night prayers to the world facing the pandemic from the promenade of St. Peter's Square.
October 4, 2020: The question's “Fratelli Tutti” (“Brothers All”) argues that the pandemic has proved that the theory of market capitalism has failed and a new politics is needed to promote the Brotherhood of Humanity.
November 10, 2020: The Vatican report on McCarrick found that the Vatican, the American Bishop, Cardinal and the Pope declared or dismissed reports of sexual misconduct but released Frances.
March 5-8, 2021: Become the first pope to visit Iraq to meet with the highest Shia Muslim pastor.
July 4, 2021: The 33 cm (13 inches) colon was removed at the Jegley Hospital in Rome.
January 5, 2023: Presided over the funeral of Pope Benedict XVI.
January 24, 2023: “Honesty is not a crime,” announced in an interview with the Associated Press.
March 29, 2023: Respiratory infection was taken to Jegli Hospital in Rome; it will be released on April 1.
June 7, 2023: Recover surgery to remove intestinal scar tissue and repair hernia on the abdominal wall.
October 4, 2023: To make the church more sensitive to ordinary faithful responses, women were allowed to vote with the bishop for the first time during this period.
November 28, 2023: The visit to Dubai was cancelled to discuss the UN climate conference and outlined a new ecological declaration, “Laudate Deum” (“Praise God”) as a result of new cases of acute bronchitis.
December 16, 2023: The Vatican court has committed Cardinal Angelo Becciu in embezzlement and sentenced him to 5 1/2 years in prison in several judgments in a complex financial trial that aired the city's state dirty laundry and tested its judicial system.
December 19, 2023: Approval of blessings to same-sex couples, as long as they are not like marriage, has sparked fierce opposition from conservative bishops in Africa, Asia and elsewhere.
July 5, 2024: The Vatican expelled the division of Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a critic of Francis.
September 10, 2024: About 600,000 people (half the population of East Timor) attended the mass of Francis in Francis, which is considered the largest turnout for the pope's activities, in terms of the proportion of the population.
December 26, 2024: Two days after officially opening the Jubilee of 2025, the holy gate of the Roman Rebebiya Prison was opened.
January 16, 2025: After the fall, it seemed to be wearing a suspender, bruising his right arm, and another obvious fall bruising his chin.
February 14, 2025: After a bronchitis worsens, he is hospitalized and then develops into complex lung infections and bipneumonia.
February 28, 2025: His doctor briefly considered discontinuing treatment after the respiratory crisis, but decided to be aggressive in potentially causing organ damage.
March 13, 2025: During his hospitalization, it marked the 12th anniversary of his election as Pope.
March 23, 2025: Released from the hospital after 38 days of treatment, but when he appeared on the balcony earlier that day to greet the crowd below, he looked weak and fragile.
April 17, 2025: Still recovering from double pneumonia, Francis retained his Holy Thursday tradition of visiting prisoners at the Regina Caeli Prison in Rome. Although he said he could not perform the ritual of washing the feet of 12 people in a humble manner, he added that he wanted to be with them and “do what Jesus did on Holy Thursday.”
