The new Pope, Robert Francis Prevost, was elected as the 267th pontiff and the first American head of the Catholic Church. His schedule includes meetings with journalists on May 12, diplomats on May 16, and his first general audience on May 21
Born in 1955, at election Leo XIV is seven years younger than Francis, nine years younger than Benedict XVI and a whopping 18 years greener than the oldest man ever chosen to head the Vatican.
A moderate who was close to Pope Francis and spent years as a missionary in Peru, he becomes the Catholic Church’s 267th pontiff, taking the papal name Leo XIV.
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