266th Pope of the Catholic Church
| Beginning Pontificate | 13,19.III.2013 |
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| End Pontificate | 21.IV.2025 |
| Secular Name | Jorge Mario Bergoglio |
| Birth | Buenos Aires (Argentina) |
| Website | https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en.html |
Apostolic Constitutions
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"Incomparabilis Magister". The Holy Father has erected the ecclesiastical province of Calicut, India (12 April 2025)
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"Spei accensa lucerna". The Holy Father has erected the new diocese of Caazapá, Paraguay, with territory taken from the diocese of Villarrica del Espíritu Santo (22 March 2025)
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"Fidelium vitae". The Holy Father has erected the new diocese of Bagamoyo (Tanzania) (7 March 2025)
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"Caritate Christi". The Holy Father has erected the new diocese of Mindat (Myanmar) (25 January 2025)
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‘Quod Manifestatum’. The Holy Father has established the Diocese of Lüliang in China (29 October 2024)
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"In Christo". The Holy Father has erected the diocese of Alto Molócuè, Mozambique (23 January 2025)
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"Pastoralis sollicitudinis": The Holy Father has erected the new diocese of Boké, Guinea (22 February 2024)
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"Alteri alterius": The Holy Father has erected the diocese of Canindeyú, Paraguay (10 February 2024)
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"Peculiari gaudio". The Holy Father has erected the new diocese of Mafinga, Tanzania (22 December 2023)
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Apostolic Constitution "In Ecclesiarum Communione", concerning the ordering of the Vicariate of Rome (6 January 2023)
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Cum mirabilia: The Holy Father has established the new Diocese of Wukari (Nigeria) (14 December 2022)
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"In Apostolorum". The Holy Father established the Syro-Malabar Eparchy of Great Britain (16 July 2016)
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"Cum ad aeternam". Pope Francis has established the new diocese of Rayagada (India), (11 April 2016)
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"Qui consiliis". The Holy Father has established the new diocese of Kumba in Cameroon (15 March 2016)
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"Ab Domino ipso". Pope Francis has established the Diocese of San Francisco de Asís de Jutiapa (Guatemala) (25 January 2016)
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"Cum ad aptius". Pope Francis has established the new diocese of Barisal in Bangladesh (29 December 2015)
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"Ad aptius consulendum". The Holy Father established the Eparchy of St Mary, Queen of Peace, of the United States of America and Canada for the Syro-Malankara Church (18 December 2015)
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"Conscii omnino". The Holy Father has established the Apostolic Exarchate for the Syriac Catholic faithful residing in Canada (18 December 2015)
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"Saeculorum decursu". The Holy Father has established the Apostolic Exarchate for the Maronite faithful residing in Colombia (18 December 2015)
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"Ad aptius consulendum". The Holy Father has established the new diocese of Guasdualito (Venezuela) (3 December 2015)
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"Spiritualem ubertatem". Holy Father established the Apostolic Exarchate for Syro-Malabar Catholics living in Canada (6 August 2015)
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"Quo aptius". The Holy Father has established the new Eparchy of St John Chrysostom of Gurgaon of the Syro-Malankara Church in India (26 March 2015)
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"Nos, qui". The Pope has established the new Apostolic Exarchate of St Ephrem of Khadki for the Syro-Malankara Church in India (26 March 2015)
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"Qui successimus". Pope Francis elevated the Apostolic Exarchate of Miskolc for Catholics of the Byzantine Rite to the status of an Eparchy (19 March 2015)
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"Ad aptius". Pope Francis established the Eparchy of Nyíregyháza for Catholics of the Byzantine Rite (19 March 2015)
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"In hac suprema". Pope Francis has reorganised the Hungarian Greek Catholic Church and elevated it to the status of a metropolitan church ‘sui iuris’ (19 March 2015)
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"De spiritali itinere". The Holy Father has elevated the Eparchy of Hajdúdorog for Catholics of the Byzantine Rite to the status of a Metropolis, with its see in Debrecen, Hungary (19 March 2015)
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"Quo satius". Pope Francis established the Diocese of Nogales in Mexico (19 March 2015)
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"Quo flagranti". The Holy Father has ordered the formal union of the metropolitan see of Cashel with the ancient diocese of Emly, to form the new metropolitan archdiocese known as the “Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly” in Ireland (26 January 2015)
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"Quae maiori": Erection of the Eparchy of Bahir Dar-Dessie in Ethiopia (19 January 2015)
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"Multum fructum": Erection of the Metropolitan Church of Asmara in Eritrea (19 January 2015)
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"Cum ad provehendam": Erection of the new Diocese of Kuzhithurai in India (22 December 2014)
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"Inter eximias": Erection of the Ecclesiastical Province of Dodoma in Tanzania (6 November 2014)
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"Contemplationi faventes": new territorial configuration of the new ecclesiastical circumscription "Territorial Abbey of Montecassino" and of the diocese of Sora-Aquino-Pontecorvo (23 October 2014)
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"Undecim abhinc annos": the Apostolic Prefecture of Makokou (Gabon) has been raised to the rank of Apostolic Vicariate (11 July 2014)
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"Ad totius dominici gregis": restructuring of the Ecclesiastical Province of Cuiabá (Brazil)(25 June 2014)
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"Christi voluntate": Erection of the Diocese of Izcalli in Mexico (9 June 2014)
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"Quo aptius": Erection of the Eparchy of the Imaculada Conceição in Prudentópolis of the Ukrainians (12 May 2014)
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"Attenta deliberatione": The Eparchy of São João Batista in Curitiba of the Ukrainians in Brazil has been raised to Metropolitan Archeparchy (12 May 2014)
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"Cum ad aeternam": Erection of the Diocese of Pankshin in Nigeria (18 March 2014)
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"Cum ad aeternam": Erection of the Diocese of Sultanpet in India (28 December 2013)
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"Patrimonium Ecclesiarum": Erection of the Apostolic Exarchate for the Eastern Catholic rite Maronite faithful resident in Western and Central Africa, in Ibadan, Nigeria (23 December 2013)
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"Quo aptius spirituali": Erection in Australia of the Eparchy of St. Thomas the Apostle of Melbourne of the Syro-Malabars (23 December 2013)
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"Quo firmiores": Establishment of an Apostolic Nunciature in the Republic of South Sudan (1 May 2013)