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What we know about Robert Prevost, the first American pope

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected the 267th pope and will soon step onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as the new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.

Prevost, 69, from Chicago, Illinois, is the first ever pope from the United States. He will be known as Leo XIV.

A leader with global experience, he spent much of his career as a missionary in South America and most recently led a powerful Vatican office for bishop appointments. He is expected to build on Pope Francis’ reforms.

He worked for a decade in Trujillo, Peru, and was later appointed bishop of Chiclayo, another Peruvian city, where he served from 2014 to 2023.

In an interview with Vatican News shortly after he became the leader of the Dicastery for Bishops, Prevost said: “I still consider myself a missionary. My vocation, like that of every Christian, is to be a missionary, to proclaim the Gospel wherever one is.”
Uusi paavi Leo XIV (maalliselta nimeltään Robert Francis Prevost) kuitenkin The New York Timesin mukaan kritisoi vuonna 2012 viihteellistä mediaa sen suhtautumisesta "myötämielisesti evankeliumin kanssa ristiriidassa oleviin uskomuksiin ja käytäntöihin", sisältäen "homoseksuaalisen elämäntavan" ja "vaihtoehtoiset perheet samaa sukupuolta olevine kumppaneineen ja adoptiolapsineen".