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'It seems my brother cardinals went to the end of the world to find a new pope'

Jokes Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, as he walks onto the St Peter's balcony as Pope Francis I; he is the first non-European Pontiff of the church in more than 1,000 years as well as the first Jesuit leader

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With a puff of white smoke from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and to the cheers of thousands of rain-soaked faithful, a gathering of Catholic cardinals picked a new Pope from among their midst on Wednesday — choosing the cardinal from Argentina, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the first leader of the church ever chosen from South America.

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