Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago has been elected Pope Leo XIV, marking the first American to hold the position.

The 2025 papal conclave at the Vatican ended with the election of American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Here ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago, has been elected Pope Leo XIV, making history as the first American to lead ...

Prevost was brought to the Vatican in 2023 by Pope Francis as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations.

A Chicago area priest who asked not to be named said of Prevost: “What really bothers me about this new pope is that no matter what his theological background, just like other priests and ...

From an altar boy growing up in a working class area of Chicago, Robert Prevost, 69, has worked his way through the ranks to ...

(John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune) Prevost was born on Sept. 14, 1955, at Mercy Hospital in Chicago, and his Catholic roots were planted in the south suburbs, where he lived in Dolton with his parents ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost became the first American pope in the history of the Catholic church on Thursday.

Here’s a look at what we discovered about some of Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV‘s family members in the Tribune archives. Mildred A. Martinez Prevost (mother) Raised in Chicago with five sisters ...

Here's what to know about him. Where is Pope Leo XIV from? Pope Leo XIV was born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago in 1955. He is the first U.S. pope in the church's history, and is also a citizen ...