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On March 13, 2013, in Rome, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, was elected pope. Chosen by the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church to be the 266th successor of the apostle Peter, he is 76 years old, the first Latin American pope and the first pope from the Jesuit order.

Now that the white smoke has cleared and the jubilation in St. Peters Square has settled, Catholics, Christians, and people everywhere are asking, who is Jorge Mario Bergoglio and what will his pontificate mean for the Catholic Church.