AP PHOTOS: A new pope is chosen

AP PHOTOS: A new pope is chosen

AP PHOTOS: A new pope is chosen

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV.

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