Mauricio Macri sent a message to Pope Francis on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of his pontificate

March 13, 2019

The president of the nation used his official Twitter account to dedicate a message to Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

This Wednesday, March 13, the Argentine cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio he serves as the head of the Catholic Church for the first six years, under the name of dad Francisco.

The one born in the district of Flores in Buenos Aires was announced in front of the Plaza de San Pedro one day as today, but in 2013 under the number 266 of the French bishop Jean Louis Tauran.

In view of this, the president of the nation, Mauricio Macri, he used his official account of Twitter to send your congratulatory message for this special date.

"Congratulations @Pontifex_es for the sixth anniversary of his pontificate! May his work continue to be a source of example and hope in the world" the president wrote to congratulate Francisco.

Quickly, the message of Macri has generated a repercussion between followers of the social network, waking up a large amount of comments.

Bergoglio celebrated six years of papacy without visiting Argentina

During these six years of his pontificate, the Pope delivered more than 1000 homilies, delivered over 1,200 public speeches, conducted 264 catechesis sessions in public on Wednesday and 342 small catechesis sessions on the Sunday Gospel and on feast days. on the occasion of the Angelus. and Regina Caeli. The Holy Father also has two encyclicals (Lumen Fidei, thus completing the origin of Benedict XVI, and Laudato if & # 39;); three apostolic exhortations (Evangelii Gaudium, the programmatic text of the pontificate and fundamental to understand it in its amplitude, then Amoris laetitia and Gaudete et exsultate); 36 apostolic constitutions (Episcopalis communio, Veritatis gaudium and Vultum Dei quaerere); 27 Motu proprio and a bull for the proclamation of the jubilee of Mercy (Misericordiae Vultus).

Pope Francis made a total of 27 international trips with 41 countries visited during this period and, although he never returned to Argentina, he visited many places in South America .