Leo XIV, Robert Prevost and Pope Francis
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India Today on MSNWho is Robert Francis Prevost, first American pope to lead the Catholic Church?Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican's powerful office of bishops, was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.
Taking the name Leo XIV, the American was elected to be the 267th pontiff and spiritual leader of the world's 1.4 billion Roman Catholics.