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Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost, addresses the crowd from the main central loggia balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in the Vatican, on May 8, 2025. Prevost is the first pope from the United States, the Vatican announced. A moderate who was close to Pope Francis and spent years as a missionary in Peru, he becomes the Catholic Church’s 267th pontiff.