Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert F. Prevost of the U.S., appears on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.
Pope Leo XIV, 69, was born in Chicago and attended Villanova University and Catholic Theological Union in Chicago before earning a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical College of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome.Francesco Sforza/Vatican Media Handout Via Reuters
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert F. Prevost of the U.S., appears on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.
Faithful react to the announcement that U.S. Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected by the conclave as new pope, with the name Pope Leo XIV, at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States appears on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost of the Unites States delivers the “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and to the world) message from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States appears on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert F. Prevost of the U.S., appears on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States appears on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States appears on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.
People react and wave Vatican flags as white smoke (unseen) signals that cardinals elected a new pope during their conclave in the Vatican on May 8, 2025.
White smoke rises from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel, indicating that a new pope has been elected at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.
A crowd celebrates on a roof as they witness white smoke after a new pope is elected at the conclave on May 8, 2025 in Vatican City, Vatican.
Carabinieri take position on the parvis of St Peter’s basilica before the first appearance of the new Pope, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on May 8, 2025.
Swiss Guards and music band enter the parvis of St Peter’s basilica before the first appearance of the new Pope, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on May 8, 2025.
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost of the Unites States delivers the “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and to the world) message from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.