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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Known for modernizing church
Bergoglio is known for modernizing an Argentine church that had been among the most conservative in Latin America.
This Jan. 13, 2007 file photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, then Pope Benedict XVI, left, shakes hands with the archbishop of Buenos Aires Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio during their meeting at the Vatican, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2007.
Credit: AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano
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