Argentine Jorge Bergoglio has been elected pope, the first ever from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. He chose the name Pope Francis.

Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, brought with him the heart of a pastor and the clarity of a reformer. From that first moment, the papacy took on a different posture.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio was ordained a priest with the Jesuit religious order, which he would lead as Argentina’s provincial superior during the country’s murderous dictatorship that began in ...

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina has been elected as the new pope. He will be known as Pope Francis I. A plume of white smoke went up from the Sistine Chapel shortly before 2 p.m. ET ...

Bergoglio, who took the name of Pope Francis, was elected on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho, files) ...

T he election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio to supreme pontiff Wednesday marks a series of firsts for Catholicism: He’s the first South American pope, the first Jesuit pope and the first to bear the ...

In this 2008 file photo, Argentina's Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, second from left, rides the subway in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Bergoglio, who became pope in 2013 and took the name Francis ...

Yet they also chose Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a humble man who lives simply and took the name Francis (also a first) that evokes the founder of another great religious order.

News Jorge Mario Bergoglio: A pope of paradox for a church in transition Published: Mar. 14, 2013, 3:05 a.m. By Religion News Service Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis ...

FILE - This Jan. 13, 2007 file photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, then Pope Benedict XVI, left, shakes hands with the archbishop of Buenos Aires Cardinal Jorge ...