Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, an American born in the state of Chicago, is the new Pope. He is the 267th Pope and the first American pontiff in the 2000 year history of the Catholic Church. The new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics was elected after two days of secret deliberations.
Prevost is a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and led the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops.
Prevost, 69 has taken the name Leo X1V.
