76 year old Argentina cardinal, Jorge Mario Bergoglio has been elected as the 266th leader of 1.2 billion strong Roman catholic church. Francis I emerged as the new pope today Wednesday March 13th after two days of the conclave in Vatican City, and receiving the required two-thirds majority, or at least 77 votes of the 115 cardinal electors from 48 countries.
Francis's election was announced by Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the protodeacon, with the Latin words, Habemus papam, meaning "We have a pope" to the world and before hundreds of thousands of cheering crowd gathered under the rain at St Peter's Square in Rome.
Also, as sign of a new pope being elected, the vatican has re-activated the twitter account @pontifex.
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