AP PHOTOS: A new pope is chosen

May 8, 2025, 10:33 AM

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears at the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Thursday, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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(AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

VATICAN CITY (AP) 鈥� Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican鈥檚 powerful office of bishops, was elected the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV.

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