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Thousands cheer Pope Francis
Updated He’s known as Pope Francis – and he’s making history.
The first Pope from Latin America – indeed, the first chosen outside of Europe. Known previously as Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, he was born in Buenos Aires in 1936 and is one of five children in a middle-class family. He is 76 years old, and a respiratory illness when he was young left him with just one lung.
Thousands cheered in St Peter’s Basilica when the white smoke went wafting out just after 2 pm Hamilton time.
We have team coverage, starting with Nick Dixon in Rome.
