Jorge Bergoglio, 76, from Buenos Aires has been announced as the new
Pope(266th) this evening. The native Spanish speaker, who is also fluent
in Italian and German, began his address with a joke, saying that his
brother cardinals had gathered to pick a bishop of Rome 'and they have
chosen one from far away but here I am'. Dressed in white robes with an
elaborate stole, Pope Francis becomes the first South American Pontiff
and first non-European Pope. He is also the first Jesuit to hold the
title and narrowly lost out to Benedict XVI in 2005.
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