UNEDITED -Meet Pope Leo XIV, the 267th Pontiff of the Catholic Church

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been elected arsenic the 267th pope successful the past of the Catholic Church and volition beryllium known arsenic Pope Leo XIV.

Originally from Chicago, the 69-year-old becomes the archetypal American to clasp the papacy. A missionary who spent overmuch of his vocation ministering successful Peru, Prevost was astir precocious the caput of the Vatican’s almighty bureau of bishops.

His predetermination marks a historical milestone successful the Church’s 2,000-year history.

The conclave of implicit 130 cardinal electors selected Pope Leo XIV connected the 2nd time of voting, pursuing the decease of Pope Francis connected April 21 astatine the property of 88.

In keeping with tradition, Pope Leo XIV appeared connected the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to present his archetypal blessing and greet the faithful gathered successful St. Peter’s Square connected Thursday, May 8, 2025.

His enactment marks a important caller section successful Church leadership, not lone for his nationality but besides for his planetary and pastoral experience.

According to a Vatican City report, Prevost had agelong been considered a starring candidate, though his American inheritance posed a challenge:

“There had agelong been a taboo against a U.S. pope, fixed the geopolitical powerfulness already wielded by the United States successful the secular sphere. But Prevost, a Chicago native, was seemingly eligible besides due to the fact that helium is simply a Peruvian national and lived for years successful Peru, archetypal arsenic a missionary and past arsenic an archbishop,” the study noted.

Brief Profile: Pope Leo XIV

• Full Name: Robert Francis Prevost

• Birth: 1956, Chicago, USA

• Religious Order: Augustinian

• Ordained: 1981

Pope Leo XIV was raised successful a devout Catholic household and felt a spiritual calling aboriginal successful life. He joined the Augustinian seminary and was ordained a clergyman successful 1981. After ordination, helium engaged successful teaching and pastoral enactment successful assorted communities.

In 1992, helium was appointed Provincial Prior of the Augustinians successful the United States, wherever helium importantly improved the organisation and planetary missions of the order.

In 2015, Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of Chiclayo successful Peru. There, helium became known for his committedness to education, quality rights, and the combat against poverty.

In 2020, helium was elevated to the cardinalate.

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