The First American, Robert Prevost has been elected as Pope.
Robert Prevost has been elected as successor to Pope Francis.
A short while earlier, the white smoke billowed from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel, indicating that the voting process has concluded and the cardinals have chosen a successor to Pope Francis.
A moderate who was close to Pope Francis and spent years as a missionary in Peru, he becomes the Catholic Church’s 267th pontiff, taking the papal name Leo XIV.