Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025 at the age of 88. He was born in Buenos Aires on Dec. 17, 1936, to Italian immigrant parents, and in 1969 was ordained as a Jesuit preist. Wikipedia lists the many firsts, and provides the photo of how we knew him. "He was the first pope from the Society of Jesus (the Jesuit Order), the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first born or raised outside of Europe since the 8th-century Syrian pope Gregory III. "