By Anush Elbakyan, Boston.com Correspondent

Argentine Jorge Bergoglio has been elected pope. He chose the name Francis.

Pope Francis is the first ever from the Americas, an austere Jesuit intellectual who modernized Argentina’s conservative Catholic church.

Pictured: Looking stunned, Francis shyly waved to the crowd of tens of thousands of people who gathered in St. Peter’s Square.

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