Kochi: Robert Prevost, 69, is the first American pontiff to be elected leader of the Catholic Church on Thursday, BBC reported.
He will be known as Pope Leo XIV Prevost..Thousands gathered in St Peter’s Square to cheer Pope Leo XIV who appeared at Vatican balcony
He said “May peace be with all of you,” from the Vatican balcony.
Prevost, born in Chicago, is seen as a reformer and had worked for many years as a missionary in Peru before being made an archbishop there.
