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What other popes have reigned as long as Francis?

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With just under a dozen years on the Chair of Peter, Pope Francis is among a group of 9 other pontiffs to reign as pope for stints of 11-12 years.​


When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was chosen by his fellow cardinals to follow Pope Benedict XVI as the next Successor to St. Peter on March 13, 2013, he was a pope of many “firsts”:

  • First member of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) to be elected pope
  • First pontiff to hail from the Western Hemisphere and south of the Equator
  • First pope in over 1200 years to have been raised outside of Europe (St. Gregory III, elected in the 8th Century, was from modern-day Syria)

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