Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Jesuit General Curia via Getty While studying to be a priest, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, pictured in 1966, taught literature and psychology at Colegio del Salvador in Buenos Aires.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio - who will be now known as Pope Francis - has spent nearly his entire career at home in Argentina, overseeing churches and shoe-leather priests. The 76-year-old archbishop of ...

Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on Dec. 17, 1936, the future pope was the son of Italian immigrants and one of five siblings. His father was an accountant for the railway, his mother a homemaker.

Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, leaves behind one living sibling and a handful of nieces and nephews – only one of whom is expected to attend his funeral Saturday.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born on 17 December 1936 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The eldest of five children, he grew up in a close-knit family of Italian immigrants — his father Mario, ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s name has etched itself into history. At 76, he was elected as the 266th Pope, adopting the name Francis for his papacy. Since then, he became known globally, ...

Born Dec. 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the eldest of five children of Italian immigrants. He credited his devout grandmother Rosa with teaching him how to pray.

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.

The first pope from the Americas was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Dec. 17, 1936. He was chosen to lead the church on March 13, ...

However, it was taken in 2008, not 1998, and showed a young Francis, who was then known as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, riding the subway in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We thus rate this claim as ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio greeting parishioners during the celebration of Saint Cajetan in Buenos Aires.(AFP: Claudia Conteris) In 2001, he was made a cardinal under Pope John Paul II.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s name has etched itself into history.At 76, he was elected as the 266th Pope, adopting the name Francis for his papacy. Since then, he became known globally, and his ...