To celebrate his third anniversary as head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis extends his social media presence by joining Instagram, launching the new account with a picture of himself knelt in worship and caption they reads ‘pray for me’.
In just a little over 3-hours, the Pope already has over 500k followers.
Using the moniker Franciscus, the pope joined the photo-sharing app to mark the third anniversary of his inauguration as the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics.
He is already a well-established social media user, tweeting regularly under the handle @Pontifex to more than 27 million followers across several accounts in different languages.