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Pope Francis has died at the age of 88 after a bout of illness. Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, he was elected in 2013, the first non-European pope to lead the Catholic Church in centuries. Under his papacy, the Vatican has adopted a realist approach to foreign affairs to mediate international conflicts. The BBC looks back at some of his key foreign trips and major global figures he had received at the Vatican.
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