Pope No. 267 · 2025 — today
Leo XIV
✦ Reigning Pope01Biography
Birth name
Robert Francis Prevost
Birth
September 14, 1955 · Chicago, Illinois, United States
Nationality
American / Peruvian UNITED STATES
Age at election
69 years old
Election
Elected at the conclave
Leo XIV was elected in a global context marked by the rise of artificial intelligence, increasing geopolitical tensions, and a Church emerging from the reformist pontificate of Francis. He inherited an institution profoundly transformed by synodality and had to continue the reforms already underway.
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First American (North American) pope in history
02Pontificate
1Encyclicals
03Chronology
2025
Elected pope on May 8, 2025, becoming the first American pope in history under the name Leo XIV.
2026
Publication of the encyclical Magnifica humanitas on May 25, 2026, the first major doctrinal text of his pontificate, on AI and humanity.
04Encyclicals
Magnifica humanitas
2026
Social
A reflection on the greatness of humanity in the face of the challenges of artificial intelligence and the new industrial revolution.
06Legacy
✦ Did you know?
Robert Prevost is the first American citizen to become pope, an election considered historic for a country long excluded from the papacy because of its global geopolitical power.
◈ Anecdote
A member of the Order of Saint Augustine, Prevost spent many years as a missionary in Peru, where he obtained Peruvian citizenship, making Leo XIV a binational pope, American and Peruvian.
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- Hope that watches over: Leo XIV's words to the sick of Lourdes in the face of the law on assisted dying
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- The France that Leo XIV was about to visit was no longer the one Rome had expected.
- In Buenos Aires, the Pope's words in the face of power: what Leo XIV will say to Javier Milei
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- Tepeyac reopens its Holy Door: what Leo XIV entrusted to the people of Mary
- Leo XIV in France: Forgiveness as Heaven's Foreign Policy
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