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Eager to test their new power, small city appointees on the executive committee quickly found its limit, said Ronson Chu, homelessness manager for the South Bay Cities Council of Governments.

“That’s giving members of the executive committee pause as to their effectiveness,” Chu said.

"I think that it will be great to have an African Pope," Father Stan Chu Ilo, a Nigerian Catholic priest and associate professor at DePaul University in Chicago, told the BBC, arguing that the leadership of the Church should better reflect the make-up of the global congregation.

It is an approach Fr Chu Ilo called a "poor-first" outlook, with a focus on being "a listening Church".