It is 10 years since Pope Francis became head of the Roman Catholic Church. The National looks back at that decade. Getty Images
Pope Francis attends the funeral mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in January 2023 at St Peter's square in Vatican City. Getty Images
Pope Francis leads mass with the new cardinals in August 2022 at Vatican City. Getty Images
Pope Francis in March 2021 conducts mass at the Franso Hariri Stadium in Erbil, Iraq. Getty Images
Pope Francis arrives at the Franso Hariri Stadium in Erbil, Iraq, March 2021. Getty Images
St Peter's Square stands empty while Pope Francis celebrates the Easter Mass in an empty St Peter's Basilica during the coronavirus pandemic in April 2020. Getty Images
Pope Francis drives around Tokyo Dome before conducting mass during a visit to Japan in November 2019. Getty Images
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, who was Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces at the time, with Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai and Pope Francis at the Presidential Palace in Abu Dhabi, in February 2019. Photo: Ministry of Presidential Affairs
Pope Francis celebrates mass at Zayed Sport City, Abu Dhabi, in February 2019. Getty Images
Pope Francis attends the festival of families at Croke Park in August 2018 in Dublin, Ireland. Getty Images
Pope Francis during the Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum in March 2018 in Rome. Getty Images
The Pope at a public engagement in November 2017 in Yangon, Myanmar. Getty Images
Pope Francis at the Celebration of the Lord's Passion at St Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, April 14, 2017. Getty Images
Pope Francis at Easter Mass at St Peter's Square, Vatican City, April 2017. Getty Images
Pope Francis with Prince Charles, Prince of Wales during the British royal's visit to the Vatican in April 2017. Getty Images
Pope Francis meets migrants at the Moria detention centre in Lesbos, Greece, April 2016. Getty Images
Father Paschal Mwijage of the St Joseph the Worker Parish in Nairobi's Kangemi slum wears a T-shirt featuring Pope Francis in Kenya in November 2015. Getty Images
Pope Francis after conducting mass at Tacloban Airport in the Philippines, January 2015. Getty Images
Pope Francis greets Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at St Peter's Basilica in September 2014. Getty Images
Pope Francis meets football legend Diego Maradona during an audience in Rome in September 2014. Getty Images
Pope Francis prays by the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel, May 2014. Getty Images
Pope Francis welcomes Britain's Queen Elizabeth II for a private audience in Rome, April 2014. Getty Images
Pope Francis during his weekly audience in St Peter's Square, the Vatican, in March 2014. Getty Images
Pope Francis during the Inauguration Mass for the Pope in St Peter's Square in March 2013. Getty Images
Women read a special edition of L'Osservatore Romano newspaper, which carries a photograph of the newly elected Pope Francis, March 2013. Getty Images
Pope Francis on the central balcony of St Peter's Basilica in March 2013. Getty Images
