In his first speech, the newly elected Pope Francis said the cardinals had almost gone to the end of the world to find a new Pope. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, an Archbishop from Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires, is successor to Pope Benedict XVI.

Why did he choose the name Francis? How did his Latin American homeland shape the son of Italian immigrants? What stance did he take during the military dictatorship? What mark has his Jesuit education left on him? And what are his main theological ideas? Meet the new Pope with Deutsche Welle.