Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the 76-year-old cardinal and archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina was named Benedict XVI's successor on Wednesday.
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Early years
Birth, education and priesthood Born: Dec. 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Education: Studied at Theological Faculty of San Miguel. Received licentiate in philosophy.
Ordained into the Society of Jesus on Dec. 13, 1969.
Languages: Besides his native Spanish, Bergoglio also speaks Italian and German.
Rising status
Becomes a bishop
Ordained titular bishop of Auca and auxiliary of Buenos Aires on June 27, 1992.
Became archbishop of Buenos Aires on Feb. 28, 1998.
Received title ordinary for the Eastern-rite faithful in Argentina who lack an ordinary in their own rite on Nov. 30, 1998.
2001-present
Becomes a cardinal
Proclaimed cardinal by Pope John Paul II on Feb. 21, 2001.
Participated in conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI in 2005.
Served as president of the Bishops' Conference of Argentina from November 2005 to November 2011.
Other tidbits
Interesting facts, comments
Reportedly received the second-most votes after Joseph Ratzinger in the 2005 papal election.
Despite being Argentina's top church official, Bergoglio never lived in the ornate church mansion in Buenos Aires, preferring a simple bed in a downtown room heated by a small stove. For years, he took public transportation around the city and cooked his own meals.
Had a lung removed due to infection when he was a teenager.
Couldn't prevent Argentina from becoming the first Latin American country to legalize same-sex marriage or stop its president, Cristina Fernandez, from promoting free contraception and artificial insemination. When Bergoglio argued that gay adoptions discriminate against children, Fernandez compared his tone to "medieval times and the Inquisition."
Critics accuse him of failing to stand up publicly against the country's military dictatorship from 1976-1983, when victims and their relatives often brought first-hand accounts of torture, death and kidnappings.
No Jesuit priest has ever served as pontiff.
Newly elected Pope Francis appears on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.(Photo: Peter Macdiarmid, Getty Images)
Birth, education and priesthood
Born: Dec. 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Education: Studied at Theological Faculty of San Miguel. Received licentiate in philosophy.
Ordained for the Jesuits on Dec. 13, 1969. No Jesuit priest has ever served as pontiff.
Languages: Besides his native Spanish, Bergoglio also speaks Italian and German.
Had a lung removed due to infection when he was a teenager.
Becomes a bishop
Ordained titular bishop of Auca and auxiliary of Buenos Aires on June 27, 1992.
Became archbishop of Buenos Aires on Feb. 28, 1998.
Received title ordinary for the Eastern-rite faithful in Argentina who lack an ordinary in their own rite on Nov. 30, 1998.
Becomes a cardinal
Proclaimed cardinal by Pope John Paul II on Feb. 21, 2001.
Participated in conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI in 2005.
Served as president of the Bishops' Conference of Argentina from November 2005 to November 2011.
Reportedly received the second-most votes after Joseph Ratzinger in the 2005 papal election.
Interesting facts, comments
Bergoglio never lived in the ornate church mansion in Buenos Aires, preferring a simple bed in a downtown room heated by a small stove. For years, he took public transportation around the city.
When Bergoglio argued that gay adoptions discriminate against children, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez compared his tone to "medieval times and the Inquisition."
Critics accuse him of failing to stand up publicly against the country's military dictatorship from 1976-1983, when victims and their relatives often brought first-hand accounts of torture, death and kidnappings.
Wanataaluma wakatoliki wanaweza kutoa shule nzuri zaidi.
Maana hasa ya kubadili majina ina maana ya kuaga hali ya zamani na kuivaa mpya kama Tumbili leo ungekuwa hujabatizwa kwa mapokeo ya kanisa uko na nafasi ya kuchagua jina jipya kutoka majina mengi ya wakristo wa zamani waliotangazwa watakatifu ambao unataka kufuata na kuiga matendo yao katika maisha yako na kuona kama ni mfano na kielelezo cha maisha mapya unayoyaanza ya ukatoliki.
Si mapapa tu, mashirika ya kitawa ya kikatoliki mengi yana utaratibu huo, baada ya kipindi cha kutazamwa (aspirants and postulants) wanapoingia kwanye malezi ya maisha yenyewe (novice) huchagua majina mapya ambayo watayatumiwa wakiwa wanashirika, na source ya majina ni kutoka wakristo ambao wametangazwa watakatifu kama wasimamizi na mifano ya kuigwa katika maisha yao ya kikristo.
Papa mpya kimapokeo huchagua jina mojawapo la mapapa waliomtangulia kuiga mfano wa maisha yake, utendaji wake ingawa si yote aliyofanya huyo mtangulizi wake katika kiti cha kitume atayafuata, ila binafsi anaona ni kielelezo chenye kumfunza katika maisha na utendaji wake.
Pope Francis starts first day in new job
ROME -- Pope Francis could have been excused for sleeping in Thursday, a day after shocking the world with a series of pontiff firsts: a Jesuit from Latin America who chose a name honoring St. Francis of Assisi.
But the newly elected leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics instead went to bed after a quick dinner with his fellow 114 cardinal-electors in order to rise early to pray for 30 minutes at Rome's Santa Maria Maggiore church. Outside, a crowd of around 150 faithful cheered.
Afterwards, this by all accounts simple man who likes to ride Rome's subways did perhaps his last regular errand. He picked up his belongings and payed his bill at the lodging house for clerics where he had stayed before going behind Vatican walls to vote in the conclave.
At 1 p.m. local time, the Vatican is scheduled to hold a press briefing about Pope Francis' schedule going forward. The biggest outstanding question is the date of his installation mass.On Wednesday, throngs jamming St. Peter's Square roared with joy as Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, stepped onto the balcony as the new pope.
"Brothers and sisters, good evening," Bergoglio, who chose the name Pope Francis, said to wild cheers. "You know that the work of the conclave is to give a bishop to Rome. It seems as if my brother cardinals went to find him from the end of the earth. Thank you for the welcome."
The crowd grew silent as Francis, 76, recited the Lord's Prayer and a Hail Mary. He asked the crowd to pray for him before he blessed them.
"Let us pray for the whole world," he said.
Moments later, the official Twitter account for the pope tweeted: "Habemus Papam Franciscum" - We have Pope Francis. It was retweeted more than 55,000 times in less than two hours.
Hours later, the Vatican updated the Holy See website with the first official portrait of the new pontiff and the Latin phrase announcing his selection. Besides English and Latin, the site is available in Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese and German.
President Obama offered "warm wishes" to the new pope.
"As a champion of the poor and the most vulnerable among us, he carries forth the message of love and compassion that has inspired the world for more than two thousand years - that in each other we see the face of God," Obama said in a statement.
Ndo maana nasema hukumuelewa. Ngoja nikusaidie mdogo wangu zomba, yule Cardinali alomtangaza Papa ndo aliyeongea Kilatino na Pp Francis aliongea Kiitaliano, well, sometimes Kilatino na Kiitaliano vinaelekeana sana hasa kwa matamshi. Pope Francis alianza kuamkia "Bona sera" manake "Habari za jioni" ni kiitaliano hiki kaka!!!
Pope Francis is the first ever from the Americas, an austere Jesuit intellectual who modernized Argentina's conservative Catholic church. Known until Wednesday as Jorge Bergoglio, the 76-year-old is known as a humble man who denied himself the luxuries that previous Buenos Aires cardinals enjoyed. He came close to becoming pope last time, reportedly gaining the second-highest vote total in several rounds of voting before he bowed out of the running in the conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI.
Groups of supporters waved Argentine flags in St. Peter's Square as Francis, wearing simple white robes, made his first public appearance as pope.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, good evening," he said before making a reference to his roots in Latin America, which accounts for about 40 percent of the world's Roman Catholics .
Bergoglio often rode the bus to work, cooked his own meals and regularly visited the slums that ring Argentina's capital. He considers social outreach, rather than doctrinal battles, to be the essential business of the church.
He accused fellow church leaders of hypocrisy and forgetting that Jesus Christ bathed lepers and ate with prostitutes.
"Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit," Bergoglio told Argentina's priests last year.
Bergoglio's legacy as cardinal includes his efforts to repair the reputation of a church that lost many followers by failing to openly challenge Argentina's murderous 1976-83 dictatorship. He also worked to recover the church's traditional political influence in society, but his outspoken criticism of President Cristina Kirchner couldn't stop her from imposing socially liberal measures that are anathema to the church, from gay marriage and adoption to free contraceptives for all.
"In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage," Bergoglio told his priests. "These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the Church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation. And this poor girl who, rather than returning the child to sender, had the courage to carry it into the world, must wander from parish to parish so that it's baptized!"
Bergoglio compared this concept of Catholicism, "this Church of 'come inside so we make decisions and announcements between ourselves and those who don't come in, don't belong," to the Pharisees of Christ's time people who congratulate themselves while condemning all others.
This sort of pastoral work, aimed at capturing more souls and building the flock, was an essential skill for any religious leader in the modern era, said Bergoglio's authorized biographer, Sergio Rubin.
But Bergoglio himself felt most comfortable taking a very low profile, and his personal style was the antithesis of Vatican splendor. "It's a very curious thing: When bishops meet, he always wants to sit in the back rows. This sense of humility is very well seen in Rome," Rubin said before the 2013 conclave to choose Benedict's successor.
Bergoglio's influence seemed to stop at the presidential palace door after Nestor Kirchner and then his wife, Cristina Fernandez, took over the Argentina's government. His outspoken criticism couldn't prevent Argentina from becoming the Latin American country to legalize gay marriage, or stop Fernandez from promoting free contraception and artificial insemination.
His church had no say when the Argentine Supreme Court expanded access to legal abortions in rape cases, and when Bergoglio argued that gay adoptions discriminate against children, Fernandez compared his tone to "medieval times and the Inquisition."
This kind of demonization is unfair, says Rubin, who obtained an extremely rare interview of Bergoglio for his biography, the "The Jesuit."
"Is Bergoglio a progressive a liberation theologist even? No. He's no third-world priest. Does he criticize the International Monetary Fund, and neoliberalism? Yes. Does he spend a great deal of time in the slums? Yes," Rubin said.
Bergoglio has stood out for his austerity. Even after he became Argentina's top church official in 2001, he never lived in the ornate church mansion where Pope John Paul II stayed when visiting the country, preferring a simple bed in a downtown building, heated by a small stove on frigid weekends. For years, he took public transportation around the city, and cooked his own meals.
Bergoglio almost never granted media interviews, limiting himself to speeches from the pulpit, and was reluctant to contradict his critics, even when he knew their allegations against him were false, said Rubin.
That attitude was burnished as human rights activists tried to force him to answer uncomfortable questions about what church officials knew and did about the dictatorship's abuses after the 1976 coup.
Many Argentines remain angry over the church's acknowledged failure to openly confront a regime that was kidnapping and killing thousands of people as it sought to eliminate "subversive elements" in society. It's one reason why more than two-thirds of Argentines describe themselves as Catholic, but fewer than 10 percent regularly attend mass.
Under Bergoglio's leadership, Argentina's bishops issued a collective apology in October 2012 for the church's failures to protect its flock. But the statement blamed the era's violence in roughly equal measure on both the junta and its enemies.
"Bergoglio has been very critical of human rights violations during the dictatorship, but he has always also criticized the leftist guerrillas; he doesn't forget that side," Rubin said.
The bishops also said "we exhort those who have information about the location of stolen babies, or who know where bodies were secretly buried, that they realize they are morally obligated to inform the pertinent authorities."
That statement came far too late for some activists, who accused Bergoglio of being more concerned about the church's image than about aiding the many human rights investigations of the Kirchners' era.
Bergoglio twice invoked his right under Argentine law to refuse to appear in open court, and when he eventually did testify in 2010, his answers were evasive, human rights attorney Myriam Bregman said.
At least two cases directly involved Bergoglio. One examined the torture of two of his Jesuit priests Orlando Yorio and Francisco Jalics who were kidnapped in 1976 from the slums where they advocated liberation theology. Yorio accused Bergoglio of effectively handing them over to the death squads by declining to tell the regime that he endorsed their work. Jalics refused to discuss it after moving into seclusion in a German monastery.
Both men were freed after Bergoglio took extraordinary, behind-the-scenes action to save them including persuading dictator Jorge Videla's family priest to call in sick so that he could say Mass in the junta leader's home, where he privately appealed for mercy. His intervention likely saved their lives, but Bergoglio never shared the details until Rubin interviewed him for the 2010 biography.
Bergoglio who ran Argentina's Jesuit order during the dictatorship told Rubin that he regularly hid people on church property during the dictatorship, and once gave his identity papers to a man with similar features, enabling him to escape across the border. But all this was done in secret, at a time when church leaders publicly endorsed the junta and called on Catholics to restore their "love for country" despite the terror in the streets.
Rubin said failing to challenge the dictators was simply pragmatic at a time when so many people were getting killed, and attributed Bergoglio's later reluctance to share his side of the story as a reflection of his humility.
But Bregman said Bergoglio's own statements proved church officials knew from early on that the junta was torturing and killing its citizens, and yet publicly endorsed the dictators. "The dictatorship could not have operated this way without this key support," she said.
Bergoglio also was accused of turning his back on a family that lost five relatives to state terror, including a young woman who was 5-months' pregnant before she was kidnapped and killed in 1977. The De la Cuadra family appealed to the leader of the Jesuits in Rome, who urged Bergoglio to help them; Bergoglio then assigned a monsignor to the case. Months passed before the monsignor came back with a written note from a colonel: It revealed that the woman had given birth in captivity to a girl who was given to a family "too important" for the adoption to be reversed.
Despite this written evidence in a case he was personally involved with, Bergoglio testified in 2010 that he didn't know about any stolen babies until well after the dictatorship was over.
"Bergoglio has a very cowardly attitude when it comes to something so terrible as the theft of babies. He says he didn't know anything about it until 1985," said the baby's aunt, Estela de la Cuadra, whose mother Alicia co-founded the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo in 1977 in hopes of identifying these babies. "He doesn't face this reality and it doesn't bother him. The question is how to save his name, save himself. But he can't keep these allegations from reaching the public. The people know how he is."
Initially trained as a chemist, Bergoglio taught literature, psychology, philosophy and theology before taking over as Buenos Aires archbishop in 1998. He became cardinal in 2001, when the economy was collapsing, and won respect for blaming unrestrained capitalism for impoverishing millions of Argentines.
Later, there was little love lost between Bergoglio and Fernandez. Their relations became so frigid that the president stopped attending his annual "Te Deum" address, when church leaders traditionally tell political leaders what's wrong with society.
During the dictatorship era, other church leaders only feebly mentioned a need to respect human rights. When Bergoglio spoke to the powerful, he was much more forceful. In his 2012 address, he said Argentina was being harmed by demagoguery, totalitarianism, corruption and efforts to secure unlimited power. The message resonated in a country whose president was ruling by decree, where political scandals rarely were punished and where top ministers openly lobbied for Fernandez to rule indefinitely.
Mimi nilipenda maneno yake haya "And now I would like to give the blessing, but first I want to ask you a favour. Before the bishop blesses the people I ask that you would pray to the Lord to bless me the prayer of the people for their Bishop. Let us say this prayer your prayer for me in silence."
hii ni ishara kuwa he is humble.......
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[TD]Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires(19921997) Titular Bishop of Auca(19921997) Archbishop of Buenos Aires(19982013) Cardinal-Priest of St. Roberto Bellarmino(20012013) Ordinary of the Ordinariate for the Faithful of the Eastern Rites in Argentina(19982013)[/TD]
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Bergoglio was elected pope on 13 March 2013,[SUP][35][/SUP][SUP][36][/SUP] the second day of the 2013 papal conclave, taking the papal name Francis.[SUP][37][/SUP] Vatican deputy spokesman Thomas Rosica said the same day that the new pontiff had chosen the name in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi, and had done so because the new pontiff was a lover of the poor.[SUP][38][/SUP][SUP][39][/SUP][SUP][40][/SUP] Cardinal Timothy Dolan, a participant in the proceedings of the Conclave, confirmed that the new pope said, "I choose the name Francis, in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi".[SUP][41][/SUP] Some of those not initially aware of the statement made by the new pope in the Conclave mistakenly believed that, as a Jesuit, he chose Francis in recognition of Francis Xavier.[SUP][42][/SUP][SUP][43][/SUP]
His choice of the name "Francis" marked the first time in papal history that this name had been used[SUP][44][/SUP] and the first time since Pope Lando's brief 913 reign that a serving pope held a name unused by a predecessor[SUP][45][/SUP].
Bergoglio is the first Jesuit chosen to be pope.[SUP][46][/SUP] He is also the first pope from the New World, and the first from the Southern Hemisphere. Francis is the first pope born outside of Europe in 1,272 years, since Syrian-born St. Gregory III, who reigned from 731 to 741.[SUP][47][/SUP]
Francis is fluent in Spanish, Latin, Italian,[SUP][48][/SUP] German,[SUP][49][/SUP] French,[SUP][48][/SUP] and English.[SUP][50][/SUP]
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Enzi ya ujana wake aliwahi kufanya kazi mbalimbali ikiwamo ya mlinzi wa mlangoni (baunsa) katika Bar, ili kujipatia fedha.
Papa Francis I aliteuliwa hivi karibuni kuliongoza kanisa hilo baada ya Papa Benedict XVI kutangaza kujiuzulu kwa sababu za kiafya.
Enzi ya ujana wake aliwahi kufanya kazi mbalimbali ikiwamo ya mlinzi wa mlangoni (baunsa) katika Bar, ili kujipatia fedha.
Papa Francis aliteuliwa hivi karibuni kuliongoza kanisa hilo baada ya Papa Benedict XVI kutangaza kujiuzulu kwa sababu za kiafya.
Aidha, Papa Francis anatarajia kuongoza misa yake ya kwanza kesho katika Kanisa la Mtakatifu Peter, mjini Vatican.
Katika wasifu wake ulioandikwa mwaka 2010 na Francesca Ambrogetti na Sergio Rubin wa Shirika la Jesuit, Papa Francis I alikiri kuwa aliwahi kufanya kazi kama mlinzi wa mlangoni katika moja ya baa za Jimbo la Buenos, Argentina, ili kujipatia ada ya shule.
Papa huyu mpya ambaye jina lake halisi ni Jorge Mario Bergoglio, alisema kuwa rafiki yake wa kike alikuwa ni miongoni mwa kundi la marafiki aliokuwa akicheza nao muziki wa tango.
Lakini baada ya kubaini kuwa natakiwa kuenenda kiroho, nilisitisha urafiki, alisema alipohojiwa.
Papa Francis I amezaliwa katika familia yenye maisha ya kawaida, ambapo baba yake alikuwa mfanyakazi wa shirika la reli na mama yake alikuwa mama wa nyumbani.
Vilevile kuna taarifa zinaeleza kuwa Papa Francis, aliwahi kumpenda msichana mmoja na kutaka kuoa kabla ya kuingia katika utumishi wa Mungu.
Mwanamke huyo Amalia Damonte alisema kuwa aliwahi kutaka kuolewa na Papa, lakini alikataa.
Nampa hongera Papa Francis, lakini nilikataa ombi lake la kutaka kunioa, alisema Damonte.
Alisema Bergoglio alionyesha nia ya kumwoa akiwa na miaka 12 na alikataa kwa sababu wazazi wake wasingekubali akiwa katika umri huo.
mambo mengi yapi jamani? yaani mnachokonoa toka akiwa na miaka 12? hivi tukijichunguza sisi kweli toka tuanze kutamka mama kuna mtu wa kumponda jiwe mwenzake kweli??
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