Up next Could the Phillies Potentially Acquire Red Sox Star Rafael Devers? Published on 12 May 2025 Author Internewscast TagsChicago,from,historic,Leo,New,pictures!,pope,priest,Rise,The,XIV Share this @internewscast.comFacebookXRedditPinterest <!–> –> Published May 12, 2025 4:07pm EDT Image 1 of 25 next Robert Francis Prevost, who would later become Pope Leo XIV, is seen in a 1962 photo standing fourth from the left with his second-grade classmates at St. Mary of the Assumption School. (St. Mary of the Assumption School) Image 2 of 25 prev next A young Robert Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, is shown in an undated photograph with Pope John Paul II. (Augustinian Province of Our Mother of Good Counsel/Handout via Reuters) Image 3 of 25 prev next Robert Prevost seen in an undated image with Pope John Paul II. (Augustinian Province of Our Mother of Good Counsel/Handout via Reuters) Image 4 of 25 prev next Undated picture of Robert Prevost with Pope John Paul II. (Augustinian Province of Our Mother of Good Counsel/Handout via Reuters) Image 5 of 25 prev next In a ceremony at the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square on September 30, 2023, Archbishop Robert Francis Prevost receives the red biretta from Pope Francis. (Isabella Bonotto/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Image 6 of 25 prev next The exterior of the shuttered St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church, which Pope Leo XIV attended while growing up in Dolton, Illinois, on May 9, 2025. (Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images) Image 7 of 25 prev next Robert Francis Prevost during the Ordinary Public Consistory for the Creation of new Cardinal at St. Peter’s Square on Sept. 30, 2023 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images) Image 8 of 25 prev next Picture of the Our Lady of Monserrat Parish, in Trujillo, northern Peru, where Robert Francis Prevost was parish administrator from 1992 to 1999, taken on the day of his election as the Catholic Church’s 267th pontiff. (Steffano Palomino/AFP via Getty Images) Image 9 of 25 prev next Archbishop Robert Francis Prevost poses after being elevated to the rank of cardinal at the Vatican, Sept. 30, 2023. (Reuters/Yara Nardi) Image 10 of 25 prev next Archbishop Robert Francis Prevost and Cardinal Pietro Parolin attend Palm Sunday Mass at St. Peter’s Square on April 13, 2025, in Vatican City, Vatican. (Franco Origlia/Getty Images) Image 11 of 25 prev next Picture of the room at the Augustine convent Santo Tomas de Villanueva’s chapel, where Robert Francis Prevost lived between 1988 and 1998, in Trujillo, in northern Peru, taken on the day of his election as the Catholic Church’s 267th pontiff. (Steffano Palomino/AFP via Getty Images) Image 12 of 25 prev next Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, attended the 7th Novemdiales Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica on May 02, 2025 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images) (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images) Image 13 of 25 prev next The late Pope Francis greeted Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost during the Mass on the Jubilee of The Armed Forces, Police and Security Personnel at St. Peter’s Square on Feb. 9, 2025 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images) Image 14 of 25 prev next Archbishop Robert Francis Prevost attends the funeral of Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square on April 26, 2025 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Franco Origlia/Getty Images) Image 15 of 25 prev next Archbishop Robert Francis Prevost leads rosary prayers for the health of Pope Francis in St Peter’s Square on March 3, 2025, in Vatican City. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) Image 16 of 25 prev next Cardinal Robert Prevost attended Holy Mass, celebrated for before the election of a new pope in St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, May 7, 2025. (Reuters/Murad Sezer) Image 17 of 25 prev next Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost during a Pro Eligendo Romano Pontifice Mass ahead of the conclave, in which he and the other cardinal electors were called to elect a new pope, at the Vatican on May 7, 2025. (Riccardo De Luca/Anadolu via Getty Images) Image 18 of 25 prev next Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost led a prayer service in St. Peter’s Square, as the late Pope Francis continued his hospitalization, at the Vatican, March 3, 2025. (Reuters/Hannah McKay) Image 19 of 25 prev next Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, May 8, 2025. (Reuters/Yara Nardi) Image 20 of 25 prev next Pope Leo XIV waves from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, May 8, 2025. (Reuters/Guglielmo Mangiapane) Image 21 of 25 prev next Father Ramiro Castillo, vicar superior of the Augustinians of the North, holds a picture depicting Robert Francis Prevost, who became Pope Leo XIV on May 8, 2025, as he poses with attendees after a mass in his honour at the Our Lady of Monserrat Parish, where the new pope was parish administrator from 1992 to 1999, in Trujillo, northern Peru, on the day of his election as the Catholic Church’s 267th pontiff. (Steffano Palomino/AFP via Getty Images) Image 22 of 25 prev next Pope Leo XIV leads the Pro Ecclesia Mass in the Sistine Chapel, on May 9, 2025 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Vatican Media/Vatican Pool – Corbis/Getty Images) Image 23 of 25 prev next A person takes a picture of the childhood home of Pope Leo XIV in Dolton, Illinois, on May 9, 2025. (Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images) Image 24 of 25 prev next Pope Leo XIV meets the College of Cardinals in the New Synod Hall at the Vatican, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP) Image 25 of 25 prev Pope Leo XIV delivers the Regina Caeli prayer from the main central loggia balcony of St Peter’s basilica in The Vatican, on May 11, 2025. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP via Getty Images) <!–> Share this @internewscast.comFacebookXRedditPinterest
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