Vatican
City, 13 March 2013
(VIS) – Following is the official biography, published on the
occasion of the Conclave by the Holy See Press Office with the
information provided by the cardinals themselves.
Cardinal Jorge Mario
Bergoglio, S.J.
Cardinal
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J., Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina,
Ordinary for Eastern-rite faithful in Argentina who lack an Ordinary
of their own rite, was born on 17 December 1936 in Buenos Aires. He
studied as and holds a degree as a chemical technician, but then
chose the priesthood and entered the seminary of Villa Devoto. On 11
March 1958 he moved to the novitiate of the Company of Jesus where he
finished studies in the humanities in Chile. In 1963, on returning to
Buenos Aires, he obtained a degree in philosophy at the St. Joseph
major seminary of San Miguel.
Between
1964 and 1965 he taught literature and psychology at the Immacolata
College in Santa Fe and then in 1966 he taught the same subjects at
the University of El Salvador, in Buenos Aires.
From
1967 to 1970 he studied theology at the St. Joseph major seminary of
San Miguel where he obtained a degree. On 13 December 1969 he was
ordained a priest. From 1970 to 1971 he completed the third probation
at Alcala de Henares, Spain, and on 22 April 1973, pronounced his
perpetual vows.
He
was novice master at Villa Varilari in San Miguel from 1972 to 1973,
where he also taught theology. On 31 July 1973 he was elected as
Provincial for Argentina, a role he served as for six years.
From
1980 to 1986 he was rector of the Philosophical and Theological
Faculty of San Miguel as well as pastor of the Patriarca San Jose
parish in the Diocese of San Miguel. In March of 1986 he went to
Germany to finish his doctoral thesis. The superiors then sent him to
the University of El Salvador and then to Cordoba where he served as
a confessor and spiritual director.
On
20 May 1992, John Paul II appointed him titular Bishop of Auca and
Auxiliary of Buenos Aires, He received episcopal consecration in the
Cathedral of Buenos Aires from Cardinal Antonio Quarracino, Apostolic
Nunzio Ubaldo Calabresi, and Bishop Emilio Ognenovich. of
Mercedes-Lujan on 27 June of that year.
On
3 June 1997 he was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Buenos Aires and
succeeded Cardinal Antonio Quarracino on 28 February 1998.
He
was Adjunct Relator General of the 10th Ordinary General Assembly of
the Synod of Bishops, October 2001.
He
served as President of the Bishops' Conference of Argentina from 8
November 2005 until 8 November 2011.
He
was created and proclaimed Cardinal by Blessed John Paul II in the
consistory of 21 February 2001, of the Title of S. Roberto Bellarmino
(St. Robert Bellarmine).
He
was a member of:
The
Congregations for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments;
for the Clergy; and for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies
of Apostolic Life;
the
Pontifical Council for the Family; and
the
Pontifical Commission for Latin America.
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