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Publish date8 May 2025 - 22:50
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Conclave elects Leo XIV as new pope

The college cardinals has finally elected the new Pope with the Americans especially celebrating the new leader of Christian world being from their country.
Conclave elects Leo XIV as new pope
Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States has been selected as the next pope, the first American pontiff in history. He will be known as Pope Leo XIV. In his first remarks as pope from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, he called for peace and paid tribute to the Pope Francis to a roaring crowd.

Prevost, a 69-year-old from Chicago, is a leader with global experience. 


He spent much of his career as a missionary in South America 
most recently led a powerful Vatican office for bishop appointments.

He is expected to build on Pope Francis’ reforms.

 What it took to get elected: There were 133 voting cardinals and any one of them needed two-thirds of the vote to become the next Pope.

White smoke billowed above the Sistine Chapel earlier this afternoon signaling the selection of new pontiff.
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