Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, a 76-year-old Jesuit intellectual, greeted the world as Pope Francis I on Wednesday evening, the first pope from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium.
The new pontiff, successor to Benedict XVI, gained the required two-thirds majority on the fifth ballot on Wednesday, a day after the 115 voting cardinals had gathered to begin their conclave. Cardinal Bergoglio had been considered a long shot for the post.
Thousands of followers gathering in the rain of St Peter’s Square had waited excitedly for the 266th pope to appear on the balcony above them. “Long live the pope!” people in the crowd chanted.
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