LIVE: Robert Prevost named Pope Leo XIV

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Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who dedicated his career to serving in Peru and currently leads the Vatican's influential office of bishops, has been elected as the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. Prevost, 69, has chosen the papal name Leo XIV.

The sight of white smoke billowing out of the Sistine Chapel chimney at 6:07 p.m. local time on Thursday indicated the election of a new pontiff to lead the Catholic Church.

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