The New Pope : Season 1 Episode 1 -

Mostly seen comatose, though he remains the central figure of the show's cult-like devotion.

The short-lived pope whose radical Franciscan humility threatens the Vatican elite. The New Pope : Season 1 Episode 1

Voiello's bitter rival, also played by Orlando. Mostly seen comatose, though he remains the central

The episode ends with Francis II’s sudden death—implied to be an assassination—and a comatose Lenny Belardo moving his finger for the first time. Mostly seen comatose

After a deadlocked conclave between Voiello and his doppelganger, , Voiello engineers a tactical vote for a supposedly malleable candidate: Cardinal Viglietti . Taking the name Pope Francis II , Viglietti unexpectedly becomes a radical reformer, opening the Vatican to refugees and demanding the Cardinals surrender their personal wealth.