Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected to be the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church in the evening of March 13, after the Conclave deliberated for two days. He took the name Francis I, Info-Prim Neo reports. Hundreds of thousands of Catholics from all over the world came to Vatican and waited in the St. Peter Square for the election of their new spiritual father. When white smoke came out of the Sistine Chapel, they shouted “Habemus Papam”. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 76, was Archbishop of Buenos Aires in Argentina. In his previous post, he opposed contraception, abortion, artificial insemination, euthanasia, and marriages between persons of the same sex. Francis is the 266th Pope. There are now two living Popes. Francis’s predecessor Benedict XVI offered his resignation on February 11, invoking health reasons.