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Wednesday, 13 March 2013

New Pope: Pope Francis I

Today, white smoke has arose in the Sistine Chapel as the Catholic Church has elected a new pope to replace Pope Benedict XVI: Argentinian Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the 76-year-old Archbishop of Buenos Aires who has chosen the papal name Francis. He has made history as the first pope of the Americas; the first Jesuit; and the first non-European pope in more than a millennium.

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