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Pope Francis now joins over 540,000 New Yorkers as a proud @idnyc holder! You're welcome back anytime. pic.twitter.com/nTaXfKWklM

— Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) September 25, 2015

Pope Francis is now a bona-fide, card-carrying, honorary New Yorker.

Mayor de Blasio handed Pope Francis a New York City Identification Card on Friday, and in typical bureaucratic style, it gets a few things wrong.

The laminated card accurately reproduces the pontiff’s smiling, ­zucchetto-topped mug shot.

But it includes a mashup of his papal and given names: Pope Francis Bergoglio.

And it lists his address as the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City — even though the opulence-shunning Francis is living in more down-to-earth digs at the Vatican guesthouse.

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