Pope Francis holds mass in St Mark's Square on first trip in months
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Pope Francis is the Pope and head of the Catholic Church, the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State. He is the first pope to be a member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), the first one from the Americas, the first one from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first one born or raised outside Europe since the 8th-century papacy of the Syrian Pope Gregory III.
Despite health concerns, the pontiff led the service in front of tens of thousands of people who had gathered in St Peter's Square..
The humble Easter ceremony evoked the pain of war, immigration and violence against women.