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
Jorge Eduardo Acosta cases against him were re-opened. In August 2006, the Argentine justice decided to take the ESMA case, in which Jorge Eduardo Acosta is to be judged along with Alfredo Astiz and Adolfo Miguel Donda. He is also accused in Italy for crimes committed during the dictatorship against Italian citizens. He was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Argentinian court on October 26, 2011. He was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment by an Argentinian court on July 5, 2012 for the systematic theft of babies from political prisoners. Jorge Eduardo Acosta Jorge Eduardo Acosta (born 27 May 1941), alias ""el Tigre""