Who is Cardinal Robert Prevost? American elected Pope for 1st time

The College of Cardinals elected Cardinal Robert Prevost to become the next leader of the worldwide Catholic Church.

He’ll take the name Pope Leo XIV.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost is a Chicago native born in 1955.

After joining the Order of Saint Augustine in 1977 and making his solemn vows in 1981, he earned degrees in mathematics, divinity, and canon law—including a doctorate from the Pontifical College of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome.

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