Pope Francis Bio, Age, Early Life, Net Worth, Family

Pope Francis, real name Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the head of the Catholic Church was born on December 17th, 1936 in Flores, a neighborhood of Buenos Aires in Argentina.

He was born to Mario José Bergoglio and Regina María Sívori and he happens to be the eldest son to his parents. He has four siblings.

Pope Francis stands at a height of 1.75m tall and weighs 72kg. In Ramos Meja, Buenos Aires Province, Bergoglio attended Wilfrid Barón de Los Santos ngeles, a Salesians of Don Bosco school.

He received his diploma as a chemical technician from Escuela Técnica Industrial N° 27, a technical secondary school named after a former Argentine president.

Pope Francis is also a fan of the films of Tita Merello, neorealism, and tango dancing, with a fondness for the traditional music of Argentina and Uruguay known as the milonga.

Pope Francis net worth

Pope Francis has his net worth estimated to be about $16 million.

Pope Francis height and weight

Pope Francis stands at a height of 1.75m tall and weighs 72kg.

Pope Francis early life

Pope Francis was born to Mario José Bergoglio and Regina María Sívori and he happens to be the eldest son to his parents.

In Ramos Meja, Buenos Aires Province, Pope Francis attended Wilfrid Barón de Los Santos ngeles, a Salesians of Don Bosco school. He received his diploma as a chemical technician from Escuela Técnica Industrial N° 27, a technical secondary school named after a former Argentine president.

He served in that role for a number of years, working under Esther Ballestrino in the laboratory’s food division. Pope Francis had previously worked as a janitor scrubbing floors and as a bar bouncer before becoming a chemical technician.

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He had three cysts and life-threatening pneumonia when he was 21 years old. Soon later, he had a lung segment removed.

Pope Francis has been a lifelong fan of the football team San Lorenzo de Almagro. He enjoys tango dancing, neorealism, Tita Merello films, and milonga music, which is a type of traditional Argentine and Uruguayan music.

Pope Francis life records and priesthood

Pope Francis is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013.

Since Gregory III, a Syrian who ruled in the eighth century, Pope Francis is the first pope to be a member of the Society of Jesus, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first pope from outside of Europe.

Before enrolling in a chemistry program and beginning employment as a technician in a food science laboratory, Pope Francis worked briefly as a bouncer and cleaner as a young man. He was motivated to join the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1958 after making a full recovery from a serious illness.

In 1969, he was consecrated as a Catholic priest, and from 1973 to 1979, he served as Argentina’s provincial superior for the Jesuit order. In 1998, Pope John Paul II appointed him as the archbishop of Buenos Aires, and in 2001, he was elevated to the rank of cardinal.

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Throughout the riots in Argentina in December 2001, he served as its leader. He was regarded as a political competitor by the governments of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

Pope Benedict XVI resigned on February 28, 2013, and Pope Francis was chosen by the papal conclave to succeed him on March 13. In homage to Saint Francis of Assisi, he selected Francis as his papal name.

Pope Francis has garnered praise for his humility, emphasis on God’s charity, international notoriety as pope, care for the underprivileged, and dedication to interreligious dialogue throughout his public life.

He is noted with taking a less formal stance toward the papacy than his predecessors, as seen by his decision to live in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse rather than the papal apartments of the Apostolic Palace, which were utilized by his predecessors.

Pope Francis upholds church teachings on abortion, clerical celibacy, and women’s ordination, but he has opened up discussion about the idea of deaconesses and given women full membership in dicasteries in the Roman Curia. According to him, the church need to be more accepting and open to LGBT people.

Pope Francis is a vocal opponent of unrestrained capitalism, free market economics, consumerism, and excessive development. He supports addressing climate change, which has been a priority of his pontificate with the publication of Laudato si’.

During the European and Central American migrant crises, he supported the cause of refugees and helped to restore full diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba. He also negotiated a deal with the People’s Republic of China to specify how much power the country has over the appointment of their Catholic bishops.

Conservative theologians have criticized him on a number of issues, most notably for what some see as his proposal in Amoris Laetitia’s footnote that divorced and remarried Catholics be permitted to partake in the Eucharist.