21st Century · 266th pope in the Annuario Pontificio list
Francis
- Pontificate
- 13/03/2013 – 21/04/2025
- Birth name
- Jorge Mario Bergoglio
- Nationality
- Argentina
- Born – died
- 1936 – 2025
- Predecessor
- Benedict XVI
- Successor
- Leo XIV
Important events
- First pope from the Americas, first Jesuit pope, first to take the name Francis
- Jubilee of Mercy (2015–2016)
- Synod on synodality
- Died on Easter Monday, 21 April 2025
Councils and documents
- Evangelii gaudium (2013)
- Laudato si' (2015)
- Amoris laetitia (2016)
- Fratelli tutti (2020)
List: Wikidata (CC0), ordinals per the Annuario Pontificio, retrieved 2026-10-01. Antipopes are not included. For the current pope, see vatican.va.