NEXT STEPS
Wednesday - 3/13/2013, 2:29pm ET
The Associated Press
The 266th pope has been chosen.
Whoever he may be, he now changes into his papal white cassock, and one-by-one the cardinals approach him to swear their obedience.
He will stop and pray in the Pauline Chapel for a few minutes before emerging on the loggia of the balcony overlooking St. Peter's Square.
Preceding him to the balcony is French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the protodeacon, who announces "Habemus Papam!" Latin for "We have a pope" and then introduces him to the world in Latin.
He then emerges and delivers his first public words as the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.
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