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AP PHOTOS: A new pope is chosen

May 8, 2025, 10:33 AM

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears at the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Thursday,...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears at the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Thursday, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV.

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