Introducing Pope Francis I
On March 13, 2013, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope, the first ever from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium.
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Spent lifetime teaching priests
In a lifetime of teaching and leading priests in Latin America, which has the largest share of the world's Catholics, Bergoglio has shown a keen political sensibility as well as the kind of self-effacing humility that fellow cardinals value highly.
This Aug. 7, 2009 file photo shows Argentina's Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, right, giving a mass outside San Cayetano church in Buenos Aires.
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