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Pope Francis: 13 key facts about the new pontiff


Pope Francis arrives at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Photograph: L'Osservatore Romano/Getty Images

What we know about Pope Francis

• He likes to travel by bus.

• He has lived for more than 50 years with one functioning lung. He had the other removed as a young man because of infection.

• He is the son of an Italian railway worker and a housewife.

• He trained as a chemist.

• He is the first non-European pope in the modern era.

• He claims that adoption by homosexuals is a form of discrimination against children but believes that condoms "can be permissible" to prevent infection.

• In 2001 he washed and kissed the feet of Aids patients in a hospice.

• He speaks fluent Italian, as well as Spanish and German.

• Until now he has been living in a small flat, eschewing a formal bishop's residence.

• He told Argentinians not to travel to Rome to celebrate if he was appointed but to give their money to the poor instead.

• He is believed to have been the runner-up in the last papal conclave in 2005.

• He has co-written a book, in Spanish, called Sobre el Cielo y la Tierra (On Heaven and Earth).

• Though conservative on church doctrine, he has criticised priests who refuse to baptise babies born to single mothers.

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Circa 1950's Jorge Mario Bergoglio [R] with unidentified schoolmates of a preparatory school in Buenos Aires, Argentina Photograph: AP


Jorge Mario Bergoglio, second from left in back row, poses for a picture with his family in an unknown location Photograph: AP 

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, in 1973 Photograph: AP


The late Pope John Paul II met Bergoglio at the Vatican Photograph: AP

Conducting the mass in honour of Pope John Paul II in Buenos Aires Photograph: Enrique Marcarian/Reuters


Pope Benedict XVI meets Bergoglio at the Vatican on 13 January 2007 Photograph: Osservatore Romano/AFP/Getty Images

He leaves the Synod Hall after the last congregation in Vatican City on March 11 Photograph: Ciro Fusco/EPA


The Canadian cardinal Marc Ouellet, left, holds on to his umbrella next to Bergoglio as they walk in St Peter's Square after attending a cardinals' meeting at the Vatican on 6 March Photograph: Andrew Medichini/AP 

The new pope at the window of St Peter's Basilica Photograph: AFP/AFP/Getty Images

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Way hasol nga baggage ni si Pope Francis...