By this, he becomes leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, O.S.A., born on September 14, 1955, in Chicago, Illinois, has been elected as the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, taking the name Pope Leo XIV. He is the first American to ascend to the papacy.

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