Robert Francis Emerges New Pope
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been elected as new Pope of Catholic Church.
Robert Francis emerged on Thursday during the second round of voting by the cardinals ending the conclave, in The Vatican.
The American Cardinal has adopted Pope Leo XIV as his official name.
Pope Robert Prevost addresses the crowd on the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter’s Basilica for the first time.
Prevost, 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.
“Peace by with you,” he told the crowds.
White smoke from the Sistine Chapel had billowed into the sky on the cardinals’ second day of voting to announce his election in a secret conclave, while the bells of St Peter’s Basilica and churches across Rome rang out.
Crowds of people rushed towards the square to watch the balcony of the basilica, which has been fitted out with red curtains for the first address to the world by the 267th pope.
The new pontiff, who succeeds Argentine reformer Pope Francis, was introduced in Latin with his chosen papal name.
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