HABEMUS PAPEM!

WE HAVE A POPE!

POPE FRANCIS

Formerly known as

Cardinal Jorge Mario BergoglioBorn: December 17, 1936 in Buenos Aires ARGENTINA

Ordained: December 13, 1969

First Jesuit Pope

1st Pope from the Americas

1st Pope to take the name Francis (after Francis of Assisi)

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Pope Francis

POPE FRANCIS

FUN FACTS

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He has lived for more than 50 years with one functioning lung. He had the other removed as a young man because of infection

He likes to travel by bus

He trained as a chemist

He speaks fluent Italian, as well as Spanish and German.

Until now he has been living in a small flat, eschewing a formal bishop's residence.

He told Argentineans not to travel to Rome to celebrate but to give their money to the poor instead.

POPE FRANCIS

Why Francis?

“Let me tell you a story” Pope Francis described how during the conclave he was comforted by his

friend, Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes, as the votes were going his way and it seemed “a bit dangerous” that he would reach the two-thirds

necessary to be elected.

When the threshold was reached, applause erupted in the frescoed Sistine Chapel.

“He (Hummes) hugged me. He kissed me. He said, `Don’t forget about the poor!’” Francis recalled

“And those words came to me: The poor. The poor. Then right away, thinking of the poor, I thought of Francis of Assisi.

Then I thought of all the wars as the votes were being counted,

until the end. Francis is also the man of peace. That is how the

name came into my heart: Francis of Assisi.”

POPE FRANCIS