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UNBELIEVABLE: History beckons as cardinals gather to elect new pope | History Defined

Both Francis and his predecessor Benedict XVI were elected within two days (Credit: AFP)

Cardinals from across the world will be shut into the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday for a secretive conclave to elect the next head of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.

Some 133 cardinal electors -- aged under 80 -- have gathered at the Vatican from five continents to pick a successor to Pope Francis, who died last month after a 12-year-long papacy.

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