Francis appears to the public for the first time as pope, at the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, 13 March 2013.Instead of accepting his cardinals' congratulations while seated on the Papal throne, Francis received them standing, reportedly an immediate sign of a changing approach to formalities at the Vatican.[196][197] During his first appearance as pontiff on the balcony of Saint Peter's Basilica, he wore a white cassock, not the red, ermine-trimmed mozzetta[196][198] used by the previous Popes.[199] He also wore the same iron pectoral cross that he had worn as Cardinal Archbishop of Bueno
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