Who Is Pope Leo XIV: What to Know About American Cardinal Robert Prevost
On day two of the conclave and after only three rounds of voting, Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV, the first-ever North American pope.
20 minutes agoReligionFeaturesPope FrancisRobert Francis Prevost Announced as Pope Leo XIV After 2-Day ConclaveA new pope has risen.
After an even shorter conclave than the two-day affair during which was elected,, 69, as the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church on May 8, during their third round of voting.
Choosing to go by Pope Leo XIV, Prevost is the first pope ever from the United States, and only second from the Americas after the Argentinian Francis.
While technically any baptized Catholic man is eligible for the papacy, only a relative handful of cardinals were considered serious candidates to succeed Francis—or, as some of his critics emphasized, all popes are really successors of the first pope, St. Peter—and Prevost was one of them, albeit a longshot among the frontrunne...
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