Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio, S.J.

Archbishop of Buenos Aires

Cardinal-Priest of S. Roberto Bellarmino

Bishop of Argentina, Faithful of the Eastern Rites

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Dec 1936		Born	Buenos Aires
13 Dec 1969	33.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of Jesus
20 May 1992	55.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina
20 May 1992	55.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Auca
27 Jun 1992	55.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Auca
3 Jun 1997	60.5	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina
28 Feb 1998	61.2	Succeeded	Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina
6 Nov 1998	61.9	Appointed	Bishop of Argentina, Faithful of the Eastern Rites
21 Feb 2001	64.2	Elevated to Cardinal
21 Feb 2001	64.2	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of S. Roberto Bellarmino

Consistory - 2001: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2005: Participated

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Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Ramón José Castellano †
Principal Consecrator:
Antonio Cardinal Quarracino †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Emilio Ogñénovich †
Archbishop Ubaldo Calabresi †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio, S.J. (1992)
Antonio Cardinal Quarracino † (1962)
Bishop Anunciado Serafini † (1935)
Archbishop Zenobio Lorenzo Guilland † (1935)
Archbishop Filippo Cortesi † (1921)
Antonio Cardinal Vico † (1898)
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard † (1872)
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galeffi † (1819)
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Horacio Ernesto Benites Astoul
Bishop Jorge Rubén Lugones, S.J.
Bishop Jorge Eduardo Lozano
Bishop Joaquín Mariano Sucunza
Bishop José Antonio Gentico †
Bishop Fernando Carlos Maletti
Archbishop Andrés Stanovnik, O.F.M. Cap.
Bishop Mario Aurelio Poli
Bishop Eduardo Horacio García
Bishop Adolfo Armando Uriona, F.D.P.
Bishop Eduardo Maria Taussig
Bishop Raúl Martín
Bishop Hugo Manuel Salaberry Goyeneche, S.J.
Bishop Óscar Vicente Ojea Quintana
Bishop Hugo Nicolás Barbaro
Bishop Enrique Eguía Seguí
Bishop Ariel Edgardo Torrado Mosconi
Bishop Luis Alberto Fernández
Bishop Vicente Bokalic Iglic, C.M.
Archbishop Alfredo Horacio Zecca
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Oscar Domingo Sarlinga
Archbishop Luis Mariano Montemayor

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 131, Number 11,782
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 151, Deceased Cardinals (back)

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