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Robert Francis Prevost
Robert Francis Prevost is the birth name of Pope Leo XIV, elected the 267th pope on 8 May 2025 — the first pope born in the United States. Born in Chicago in 1955, he is a member of the Order of Saint Augustine who spent much of his life in Peru as a missionary, seminary teacher and Bishop of Chiclayo, and who served as Prefect of the Vatican's Dicastery for Bishops from 2023 until his election.
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Pope Francis
Pope Francis (1936–2025) was the 266th pope and Pope Leo XIV's immediate predecessor. He died on 21 April 2025. He had appointed the future Leo XIV Bishop of Chiclayo, then Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and a cardinal, and had begun the draft that became Leo XIV's first exhortation, Dilexi te.
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Pope Leo XIII
Pope Leo XIII (1810–1903) issued the 1891 encyclical Rerum novarum on labour and capital, the founding text of modern Catholic social teaching. Pope Leo XIV has said he chose his name with Leo XIII and today's technological upheaval in mind, and dated his own first encyclical to Rerum novarum's 135th anniversary.