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    Pope Francis (Latin: Franciscus; Italian: Francesco; Spanish: Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio;[b] 17 December ) is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. He is 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 papacy of the Syrian pope Gregory III.

    Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Bergoglio worked for a time as a bouncer and a janitor before training to become a chemist and working as a technician in a food science laboratory. After recovering from a severe case of pneumonia and cysts, he was inspired to join the Jesuits in He was ordained a Catholic priest in ; from to , he was the Jesuit provincial superior in Argentina. He became the archbishop of Buenos Aires in and was created a cardinal in by Pope John Paul II. He led the Argentine Church during the December riots in Argentina; the administrations of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner considered him to be a political rival.

    Following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI on 28 February , a papal conclave elected Bergoglio as his successor on 13 March. He chose



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  • Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes; Fourth Edition

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    Acknowledgements vii Preface to the Second Edition ix Preface xi 1 ‘UPON THIS ROCK’ c. AD 33– I From Jerusalem to Rome 1 II The Bishops of Rome 13 III The Age of Constantine 23 IV The Birth of Papal Rome 37 2 BETWEEN TWO EMPIRES – I Under Gothic Kings 48 II The Age of Gregory the Great 59 III The Byzantine Captivi