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Sting, Katy Perry, J Balvin & More Artists Who Met Pope Francis

Pope Francis has died. Here's a look at musicians who have met him, from Sting to Katy Perry and beyond.

Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Francis was the first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff to inherit the sovereign of the Vatican City. “Beyond the profound sorrow of an absence that weighs upon us—and will continue to do so, leaving us all in a more silent solitude—what we feel for him is a gratitude of the deepest and most enduring kind,” Bocelli wrote Monday. “I am honored to have been appointed by His Holiness Pope Francis as an ambassador of his foundation Scholas Occurrentes for Mexico,” the Mexican singer wrote on social media at the time.

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