Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina Selected as Pope

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A new pope has been elected!

Argentine Jorge Bergoglio has been elected the pope, making him the first ever from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium.

His chosen name will be Pope Francis.

The 76-year-old archbishop of Buenos Aires had reportedly been the runner up in the 2005 conclave which elected Benedict XVI, who retired last month, and which made him the first pope to resign in 600 years.

Bergoglio has spent most of his career in Argentina.

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