# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pope-francis
# Generated: 2026-09-02T04:25:25.466Z

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name: "Pope Francis"
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description: "The first pope from outside Europe in nearly 1,300 years, he reshaped the Vatican's tone on poverty, climate, and LGBTQ inclusion — then died on Easter Monday 2025, twelve years into a papacy that unsettled as much as it opened."
tagline: "266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1936-12-17"
deathDate: "2025-04-21"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Buenos Aires in 1936 to an Italian family, Jorge Mario Bergoglio joined the Jesuits in 1958 after a brush with serious illness and rose to lead the order's Argentine province through the 1970s. He became archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998, cardinal in 2001, and on 13 March 2013 — after Benedict XVI resigned — emerged from conclave as the first Jesuit and first Latin American pope, taking the name Francis after the saint of Assisi. He moved into a Vatican guesthouse instead of the papal apartments, wore simple vestments, kept his iron cross, and steered the Church toward the margins: he authorized blessings for same-sex couples, apologized for residential school abuses in Canada, brokered a deal with Beijing on bishop appointments, signed the Vatican's first treaty with Palestine, and made climate action and the abolition of capital punishment central to his pontificate. After years of declining health, he died on 21 April 2025, the day after Easter, and was succeeded by Leo XIV in May.