Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio he made history as the first non-European pope in 1,300 years Pope Francis died on Monday aged 88, a day after making a much hoped-for appearance at Saint Peter's Square ...

Pope Francis died Monday at the age of 88 almost a month after being released from a Rome hospital where he was treated for a respiratory infection that turned into pneumonia. Francis, who led the ...

A conclave is a secret meeting where eligible cardinals vote to elect a new pope. This means they’re locked inside a secure area of the Vatican (usually the Sistine Chapel) and can’t leave or ...

Pope Francis, the Argentinian pontiff who led the Roman Catholic Church for nearly 12 years, died on Monday. He was 88. Pope Francis delivers his "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) message ...

When a pope is named, they take on a new papal name that replaces their secular name. Francis was the first Francis. The most common papal name is John, followed by Benedict and Gregory.

The first was John I, the 53rd pontiff, in 523; the most recent was John XXIII, the 261st pope, elected in October 1958. In second place is Gregory ... pope goes to Urban VII, who died of malaria ...

Pope Francis, the religious head of 1.4 billion Catholics across the world, has died. He was 88. He suffered from various age-related ailments and was hospitalised for over a month. His death ...

Pope Francis at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York in 2015. He was elected after the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI in 2013, but few expected him to seek to transform his church with such ...

Pope Francis, who made history as the first Latin American papal leader and was considered to have a more progressive approach than his conservative predecessors, died on April 21, the Vatican ...

Pope Francis welcomed Vice President JD Vance to the Vatican at his residence in Casa Santa Marta on Sunday before delivering his Easter blessing and message from the balcony of St. Peter’s ...

When Benedict XVI shockingly resigned from the papacy in 2013 — an action not taken willingly since Pope Gregory XII acted to end the Western Schism by doing so in 1415 — Bergoglio was a ...