Any Catholic male is eligible to be elected as pope. However, it would be a rare occurrence for a non-cardinal to be elected. The person chosen can be from any country, including the Americas. Pope Francis is the first pope elected from the Americas - Argentina in South America.
No, he resigned, and Pope Francis, the first South American pope, is now the pope.
Saint Juan Diego of Mexico, who was born in 1474, would be the first North American saint although he was not the first North American saint to be canonized.
Mary Pope Osborne is an American writer who was born on May 20, 1949. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
How did the first Africans find themselves on the North American continent?
Pope Francis is the first member of the Jesuit order to be elected as pope, the first pope from the Western Hemisphere, the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere and the first pope from the Americas.
France built it's first North American settlement in what is now Florida.
Pope was a man who led the pueblo Indians rebellion against the spanish rule in New Mexico. He had led the first successful revolution against foreign oppressors on North American soil. He had built a fort in st. Augustine and called it Santa Fe.
Pope Pius III was the predecessor of Pope Julius II.
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Pope Francis is the first jesuit to be elected as pope, the first pope from the America's and the first pope in many centuries who is not from Europe.
The first man besides the Vikings to land on the North American continent was Christopher Columbus. He landed in north America in 1492.