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The King was Prince of Wales when he attended the funeral of Pope John Paul II in 2005.

He was the first Ghanaian to be made a cardinal, back in 2003 under Pope John Paul II.

He became the archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and was created a cardinal in 2001 by Pope John Paul II. After Pope Benedict XVI resigned in February 2013, Bergoglio, at 76 year old was elected to be the first Jesuit pope as well as the first from the Americas and the Southern Hemisphere.

After giving up the job of provincial, he served as a parish priest in San Miguel, received a doctorate in Germany and then returned to Buenos Aires, becoming archbishop in 1998 and a cardinal three years later, under Pope John Paul II.

A credible inside account of the closed-door conclave that elected Benedict to succeed John Paul II in 2005 revealed that Bergoglio, despite not wanting the job, was the group’s consistent second choice through four rounds of balloting.