VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Robert Prevost is the 267th pope, elected by the cardinals today on the second day of the conclave.
Cardinal Prevost has taken Leo 14th as his papal name.
🚨 HABEMUS PAPAM! Pope Leo XIV Elected – A New Era Begins pic.twitter.com/H1d8RgAnQ5
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“Habemus Papam” announced Cardinal Dominique Mamberti on the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica, in his capacity as the proto-deacon of the College of Cardinals.
Some minutes earlier, the white smoke had billowed out of the famous chimney atop the roof of the Sistine Chapel, to announce the cardinals’ decision on a candidate.
The vote to elect Prevost as pope was announced via the white smoke just after 6 p.m. local time, likely being the fourth vote of the conclave, which began on the afternoon of May 7.
For a pope to be elected on four ballots is notably speedy, though not without precedent: in the last hundred years Benedict XVI, John Paul I, and Pius XII were elected in four or less votes.
This story is developing…
