I am proud to be a
Jesuit and to see the first Jesuit Pope in the history. It is a moment of
blessing for all of us Jesuits and also for the entire Mother Church. Habemus
Papam!!!
He was novice master in
San Miguel, where he also taught theology. He was Provincial for Argentina
(1973-1979) and rector of the Philosophical and Theological Faculty of San
Miguel (1980-1986). After completing his doctoral dissertation in Germany, he
served as a confessor and spiritual director in Córdoba.
CARDINAL JORGE MARIO
BERGOGLIO - POPE FRANCIS
Cardinal Jorge Mario
Bergoglio, S.J., Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Ordinary for
Eastern-rite faithful in Argentina who lack an Ordinary of their own rite.
Cardinal Jorge Mario
Bergoglio was born on 17 December 1936 in Buenos Aires. He was ordained for the
Jesuits on 13 December 1969 during his theological studies at the Theological
Faculty of San Miguel.
He was novice master in
San Miguel, where he also taught theology. He was Provincial for Argentina
(1973-1979) and rector of the Philosophical and Theological Faculty of San
Miguel (1980-1986). After completing his doctoral dissertation in Germany, he
served as a confessor and spiritual director in Córdoba.
On 20 May 1992 he was
appointed titular Bishop of Auca and Auxiliary of Buenos Aires, receiving
episcopal consecration on 27 June. On 3 June 1997 was appointed Coadjutor
Archbishop of Buenos Aires and succeeded Cardinal Antonio Quarracino on 28
February 1998. Adjunct Relator General of the 10th Ordinary General Assembly of
the Synod of Bishops, October 2001. He served as President of the Bishops'
Conference of Argentina from 8 November 2005 until 8 November 2011. Created and
proclaimed Cardinal by the Bl. John Paul II in the consistory of 21 February
2001, of the Title of S. Roberto Bellarmino (St. Robert Bellarmine).
MAGIS!!!!!!!!!AMDG!!!!!!!!!
