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Mass to celebrate new pope set for noon

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(Source: Vatican TV/CNN) (Source: Vatican TV/CNN)
SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) -

Most Rev. Gregory J. Hartmayer, Catholic Bishop of Savannah, will celebrate Mass for the Election of the Pope at noon Thursday at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.

See video of Bishop Hartmayer on the papal transition.

The new leader of the Catholic Church Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio is taking the name of Pope Francis.

Bergoglio, 76, greeted the crowd outside the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at 3:23 p.m. ET, 8:23 p.m. in Italy. He becomes the first non-European pope since the papal conclaves began in 1267.

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