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Benedict XVI resigned as pope, the first to do so since Gregory XII in 1415, and the first to do so voluntarily since Celestine V in 1294. On 13 March, after a papal conclave , Jorge Mario Bergoglio is inaugurated as Pope Francis , the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the Americas, and the first non-European Pope in over 500 years.