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
Jota Mario Valencia Jota Mario Valencia Jota Mario Valencia Yepes (born "Jorge Mario Valencia Yepes" in 1956) is a Colombian television presenter. He was born in Bogotá. He attended the Universidad de La Sabana in Bogotá and was one of the founders of the Colprensa news agency. He began in television in 1979, presenting the program "Valores Humanos" (Human Values) for Promec Televisión. In 1983, he began hosting Promec's "Noticiero Promec", which remained on the air for four years. He also was one of Caracol Televisión's most well-known personalities while that company was still a "programadora"; he hosted programs such as "Telesemana", "Cazadores