Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, SJ, greeted worshippers after celebrating Holy Thursday Mass in 2008 at a church in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (CNS photo/Enrique Garcia Medina, Reuters)
A Pope’s Jesuit Life
1958: At age 21, Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis)
enters the Society of Jesus.
1960: Bergoglio pronounces his first vows as a Jesuit.
1969: After the typical decade-long period of Jesuit
formation, Bergoglio is ordained a priest.
1973: He takes his final vows as a Jesuit, in April of
that year. Three months later, he is named provincial (top leader) of the
Society of Jesus in Argentina.
1992: He is ordained auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires.
1998: Bergoglio is appointed Archbishop of Buenos Aires,
the first Jesuit to hold that position.
2001: Pope John Paul II makes him a cardinal.
2013: Bergoglio becomes the first Jesuit ever elected
pope. He takes the name “Francis.”
Source: Elisabetta Piqué, Francis:
Life and Revolution (Loyola Press, Chicago).
The pope's signature on his final vows. (Michael Rogers, SJ)
July 14, 2020 — After four ordinations went off without a hitch last week, Fr. Scott Santarosa, SJ, provincial of the Jesuits West Province, had reason to be hopeful.
June 30, 2020 — Fr. Frank Buckley, SJ, clinical director of the Center at Blessed Sacrament, the Jesuit parish in Hollywood, shares how the parish has responded to the pandemic.
The Jesuit Retreat Center of the Sierra is an adult, youth, and family retreat center in Applegate, Placer County, California, for nonprofit groups of 20-130 (105 guests overnight; +25 additional beds in summer only).
