Over an hour after the white smoke emerged, the new pope, clad in his papal vestments, stepped out onto the balcony and ...

Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV. Francis brought Pope Leo XIV, then Robert Prevost, 69, to the Vatican in 2023 to serve as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations from ...

he said. "That would signify something about the direction that the pope wants to take." Leo has been chosen 13 times before. "The name Leo harkens back to Pope Leo the Great," the first pope with ...

Newly elected as pope, Robert Prevost has chosen Leo XIV as his papal name. No pope has been named Leo since the early 1900s. The most recent, Pope Leo XIII, served as supreme pontiff from 1878 to ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69, has been elected the new pope under the papal name Pope Leo XIV, making him the first pope from the U.S.

The successor to Pope Francis, who will go by the name Leo XIV, goes down in history as ... Pontifical Commission for Latin America since 2023. He also served as Bishop of Chiclayo in Peru ...

His papal name is Pope Leo XIV. White smoke finally rose from the ... he was the leader of the Augustinian order and in 2023 he was appointed by Francis to the Dicastery for Bishops, which ...

He became a cardinal only in 2023 and less than two years later will officiate his first Mass as pope Friday, May 9, in the Sistine Chapel at 11 a.m. local time, 5 a.m. ET. Leo thanked Pope ...