The Holy See
Bergoglio was elected pope on 13 March 2013 at 7:06 p.m, the second day of the 2013 Papal conclave, taking the papal name Francis.
Bergoglio is the first Jesuit priest chosen to be pope. He is also the first pope from the Americas and the first one from the Southern Hemisphere. Indeed, he is the first non-European pope in over 1,200 years. The last non-European pope, St. Gregory III, was born in Syria and reigned from 731 to 741. Francis is also the first pope since Pope John Paul I to take a previously unused papal name.