Papal renunciation Western Schism in 1415 and the first to do so on his own initiative since Celestine V in 1294. His action was unexpected, given that the modern era popes have held the position from election until death. He said he was motivated by his declining health due to old age. The conclave to select his successor began on 12 March 2013 and elected Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, who took the name "Francis". Before setting out for Paris to crown Napoleon in 1804, Pope Pius VII (1800–1823) signed a document of renunciation to take effect if he
Jorge Uliarte Jorge Uliarte Jorge Uliarte is an Argentinian conductor and is principally known as the artistic director of the International Festival of Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. In 2011 he began a sister festival in Orvieto, Italy. Uliarte was born in Cordoba, Argentina. He attended the Music Conservatory in Córdoba, Buenos Aires, Lausanne, Santa Cecilia, Rome and Belgium. Uliarte received the diploma in orchestral conducting at the University of Concepcion and completed the "Post-graduate Fellowship" as a conductor at the University of the Royal College of Music, Manchester. At 16 he debuted as a pianist at the Teatro Colón, Buenos