Cardinal Robert Prevost has become the first-ever American pope to lead the Roman Catholic Church. He will be known as Pope Leo XIV.

The announcement came roughly an hour after white smoke rose from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on the second day of the papal conclave.

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