The Catholic Church has announced Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new pope as elected by the Conclave. He is the 267th leader of the Church, Thursday
The new Pope has taken the name “Pope Leo XIV and replaced the late Pope Francis.
White smoke rose above the Sistine Chapel, the signal that cardinals have chosen a new pope on the second day of the conclave.
During the papal conclave, the cardinals were barred from leaving or having any contact with the outside world as they selected the next leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.
Cardinal Dominique Mamberti, a 73-year-old Frenchman born in Morocco, made the announcement of a new Pope.
Cardinal Mamberti was expected to announce this unless he himself was elected pope.
Announcing the new Pope, Dominique said: “I announce to you a great joy, We have a Pope. The most eminent and the reverend Robert Francis.”
