Argentina’s Jorge Bergoglio elected as new pope

Posted March 13, 2013 4:26 pm.

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Argentinean cardinal Jorge Bergoglio has been elected as the new pope. He will take the name Pope Francis I. He delivered his first blessing on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica.

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