Pope Francis
Acting
December 17, 1936
Died at age 88
April 21, 2025
Date of Death
Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina
55 Credits
Biography
Pope Francis (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; 17 December 1936 – 21 April 2025) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 13 March 2013 until his death. He was the first pope from the Society of Jesus (the Jesuit Order), the first from the Americas and the Southern Hemisphere, and the first born or raised outside Europe since the 8th-century Syrian pope Gregory III.
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