Msgr. Dario Vigano, prefect of the Secretariat for Communications at the Vatican, announced that Pope Francis debuted his first Instagram account on March 19.  This announcement comes just a few weeks after the Pontiff’s February 26 meeting with Kevin Systrom, Instagram’s CEO and co-founder.  Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing, and social networking service that allows its users to post and share their photographs and videos through a variety of social networks such as Twitter or Facebook.

The Holy Father’s new account is named “@Franciscus.”  The very first photograph posted was a picture of Pope Francis kneeling in prayer.  His Twitter account already has 25 million followers and is available in 10 languages.  Check it out!