New Pope: Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected as the new Pope yesterday.
- Bergoglio's odds of becoming Pope ... 33-1
- known as Pope Francis I
- he is 76
- he only has one lung. His second got infected when he was a teenager, and it had to be removed.
- from Argentina
- the Church's 266th Pontiff
- the first Pope from Latin America
- he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires, but stepped down last year
- often rode bus to work
- before becoming Archbishop, he taught literature, philosophy, theology, and psychology.
- Bergoglio doesn’t live in the Archbishop palace, but rather in an apartment, where he cooks his own meals
