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Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost addresses the crowd from the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter's Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on May 8, 2025. Robert Francis Prevost was on Thursday elected the first pope from the United States, the Vatican announced. 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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San Antonio Catholic community to celebrate naming of first American pope

by Shari Biediger May 8, 2025May 8, 2025

Pope Leo XIV is a name which “reflects his reading of the signs of the times,” said Archbishop of San Antonio Gustavo García-Siller.