AP PHOTOS: A new pope is chosen
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1:33 PM on Thursday, May 8
The Associated Press
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first ever U.S. pope .
Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV.
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