What was the birth name of Pope Francis?

Pope Francis was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on December 17, 1936 in Flores, a neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was the eldest of five children of Mario Jose Bergoglio (1908-1959) and Regina Maria Sívori (1911-1981). He is the 266th and current pope (February 2016) of the Roman Catholic Church. He chose Francis as his papal name in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi. He is the first Jesuit pope, the first from South America, and the first from the Southern Hemisphere.

He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1969 and from 1973 to 1979 was Argentina's provincial superior of the Society of Jesus. He became the Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and was created a cardinal in 2001 by Pope John Paul II. Following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI on February 28, 2013, a papal conclave elected Bergoglio as his successor on March 13, 2013.