Bergoglio poses with school children and the emblem of Argentina’s San Lorenzo football teamThe new pope is Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the former archbishop of Buenos Aires, who takes the name Pope Francis. The announcement came on Wednesday, March 13, the first full day of the cardinals’ conclave in the Sistine Chapel
Bergoglio arrives for the congregation meeting at Synod Hall in the Vatican on March 7Bergoglio, right, draws the cross on the forehead of a parishioner during a Mass for Ash Wednesday, which begins the 40-day period of abstinence for Christians before the Holy Week and Easter, on February 13 at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Buenos AiresBergoglio says a Mass in honor of the late ex-President Nestor Carlos Kirchner on October 27, 2010, in Buenos AiresDuring a Mass against trafficking in July 12, 2010, in Buenos Aires, Bergoglio speaksBergoglio delivers his homily at the church of St. Cajetan in Buenos Aires on August 7, 2009Pope Benedict XVI meets Bergoglio at the Vatican in January 2007Pope John Paul II receives Cardinal Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, at the Vatican on February 21, 2001Bergoglio smiles during a news conference at the Vatican in October 2003. during celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s electionBergoglio is shown washing the feet of a woman on Holy Thursday at the Sarda maternity hospital in Buenos Aires in 2005This undated photo shows Bergoglio, who was appointed a cardinal by Pope John Paul IIBergoglio, right, and Peru’s Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne attend the special “pro eligendo summo pontifice” (to elect supreme pontiff) Mass in Vatican City in April 2005
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