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Although he followed the church’s conservative doctrines on abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, he shook up the conservative norms of the church when he told clerics not to be “obsessed with” those issues.

But the cleric admitted it was more likely that the cardinals would pick someone who already had a high profile - "someone who is already an influential voice".

Juan Carlos Cruz Chellew, who was abused by a cleric in Chile when he was a boy, said one of the few people in the Church willing to listen to him was Pope Francis.

He largely hewed to the church’s conservative line on social issues such as abortion and LGBTQ+ rights but urged clerics not to be “obsessed with” those issues.

He cultivated a reputation as a man of simple tastes, eschewing many of the trappings of a senior cleric.