On This Day March 13

Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected Pope on March 13, 2013. Bergoglio chose his name to be called Pope Francis in order to pay tribute to St. Francis of Assisi. Francis is the first Jesuit pope, the first ever from the Americas and the first from the Southern Hemisphere. He is the first non-European pontiff since the Syrian Pope Gregory III in the 8th century.

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