American Robert Prevost Named As New Pope

American-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been chosen by the conclave to be the next pope.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost is originally from Chicago and will be known as Pope Leo XIV.

133 red-robed cardinals from around the world cast their ballots to elect the new pontiff.

During the papal conclave, the cardinals were barred from leaving or having any contact with the outside world as they selected the next leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.

It has never in the history of the Roman Catholic Church has there been an American pope.