Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina to Italian immigrant parents, Francis was the first pope from the Americas and the first born outside of Europe in over a millennia.

Pope Francis will be mourned by the world Saturday — but only one of his relatives is expected to attend his funeral. Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the future pontiff was the oldest of five ...

Bergoglio was elected pope on March 13, 2013, following the surprise resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, who died in December 2022. Pope Francis broke with tradition from the start, opting to live ...

Pope Francis in 2015. Franco Origlia/Getty. Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 17, 1936, Francis made history upon his 2013 appointment to the papacy as the first ...

“Bergoglio, Pope! I couldn’t believe it! And right at that moment, my phone started ringing,” Crespo told CNN from Buenos Aires, explaining how he was deluged by callers who knew of their ...

Bergoglio, right, and Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne are at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City on April 18, 2005, for a conclave to elect a new pope after the recent death of Pope John ...

Yahoo News looks back on the legacy of Pope Francis — born as Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1936 — after he died on Monday at 88 years old.

Bergoglio, who took the papal name Francis, was the first pope to originate from the Americas, a distinction in which he reveled in his very first speech, saying, “I come from the end of the ...

In 2001, Pope John Paul II appointed Bergoglio a cardinal. Above, the latter is pictured kissing the hand of the pope during a consistory in St. Peter's Square on Feb. 21, 2001, in Vatican City ...

Who is Pope Francis' Only Sister? Maria Elena Bergoglio is the youngest of five siblings and the sole survivor of the Bergoglio family. At 76 years old, she lives under the care of nuns in a ...

Anyone trying to handicap the outcome should remember that Jorge Mario Bergoglio was considered too old to be elected pope in 2013 at age 76, and that Karol Wojtyla wasn’t on any front-runner ...