At 69, the American cardinal Robert Francis Prevost is elected Pope | EUROtoday

HAbemus Papam! Some had predicted an enormous shock … they usually have been proper. On the second day of conclave, after 4 rounds of election, the 133 cardinals voters selected their new pope on May 8: Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost thus turns into 267e Sovereign Pontiff, the third elected consultant within the XXI^e century. He takes the title of Leon XIV and succeeds Pope Francis.

“” May peace be with you all, “he said in Italian during his first blessing at the Balcony of the Saint-Pierre Basilica. He also expressed himself briefly in Spanish to send a salvation to the faithful in Peru, where he made most of his career as a missionary before becoming a cardinal in 2023.

Originally from Chicago, Robert Francis Prevost gave little interviews to the media and rarely speaks in public. Aged 69, from Chicago, Robert Francis Prevost spent most of his career as a missionary in Peru before becoming a cardinal in 2023. Coming from a father of Franco-Italian origin and a mother of Spanish origin, he gave little interviews to the media and rarely speaks in public.

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If the election of the Holy Father is at all times surrounded by a thick thriller and an ideal suspense-specific to the very train of the conclave-, the profile of Robert Francis Prevost had by no means been cited among the many papabilias are nicknamed the cardinals showing from favorites to the election. He was not a part of the outsiders, whose title returned right here and there, on the whim of predictions. It have to be mentioned that with a deeply reshaped curia, the late Pope Francis had, in a method, ready the spirits for a shock election …

“What a excitement and what great honor for our country,” mentioned US President Donald Trump on his social community.