Religion in Italy North-West, 62%, 16% and 13%, respectively. The headquarters of the 1.2-billion strong Catholic Church, the State of Vatican City (see also Holy See), is an enclave within the city of Rome and, thus, the Italian territory. The Church's world leader, the Pope, is the Bishop of Rome, hence the special relationship between Italians and the Church—and the latter's entanglement with Italian politics (see Lateran Treaty and the section below on religion and politics). The current Pope is Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who, before his election in 2013, is from Argentina and was the Archbishop of Buenos Aires from 1998
Mario Maisonnave Mario Maisonnave Mario Maisonnave (born Buenos Aires November 19, 1962) is an Argentinian/Costa Rican singer / songwriter / producer. Maisonnave is best known as the founder and lead vocalist of rock en español band - but he started out in Distorsion, the first rock act to be signed by Sony Music Central America. Over the course of his career Maisonnave topped the Central American charts six times. His first record "Todo en su lugar "(Sony 1985) with Distorsion broke sales records for "rock en español" in Central America. His album "Mario Maisonnave / Modelo Para Armar "(Sony 1989) stayed at