(CBS NEWS) -- Jorge Bergoglio - who will be now known as Pope Francis I - has spent nearly his entire career at home in Argentina, overseeing churches and shoe-leather priests.

The 76-year-old archbishop of Buenos Aires reportedly got the second-most votes after Joseph Ratzinger in the 2005 papal election, and he has long specialized in the kind of pastoral work that some say is an essential skill for the next pope. He is the first Jesuit to be elected pope.

In a lifetime of teaching and leading priests in Latin America, which has the largest share of the world's Catholics, Bergoglio has shown a keen political sensibility as well as the kind of self-effacing humility that fellow cardinals value highly.

Bergoglio is known for modernizing an Argentine church that had been among the most conservative in Latin America.

Bergoglio is known to be conservative on spiritual issues . He opposes abortion, same-sex marriage and supports celibacy. However, according to the National Cathedral Reporter's John Allen, "he's no defender of clerical privilege, or insensitive to pastoral realities."

Allen notes that in 2012, Allen assailed priests who refused to baptize children born out of wedlock, calling it a form of "rigorous and hypocritical neo-clericalism."