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Robert Prevost, first pope from US in history of the Catholic Church, takes the name Leo XIV
The missionary spent his career ministering in Peru and now leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops after being elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.
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