American-born Robert Francis Prevost, the cardinal who was elected pope on Thursday, overcame what many noticed as long-shot odds for the papacy.
Right here’s a quick timeline for the Roman Catholic Church chief now referred to as Pope Leo XIV.
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He receives a doctoral diploma from the Pontifical College of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, and the next yr, he joins a mission in Trujillo, Peru.