Cardinal Robert Prevost has been announced as the first American pope.
He will appear on the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica after being elected as the new Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church.
He has been outdoored as the new pope of the over 1.4 billion members of the Catholic Church.
The College of Cardinals began meeting in Vatican City on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, to elect a new pope as the Bishop of Rome.
The voting process is reserved for those under the age of 80 in the College of Cardinals. They were required to vote to elect a new pontiff following the death of Pope Francis.
Pope Francis, the 266th Vicar of Christ, was elected in 2013 and died on April 21, 2025.
A papal conclave is an ancient electoral process through which the Catholic Church elects a new leader behind closed doors.
Cardinal Prevost, 69, was born in Chicago.
He spent years in Peru, first as a missionary and then an archbishop.
He is regarded as a reformer in the mould of Pope Francis, who sent Cardinal Prevost to run the diocese of Chiclayo, Peru, in 2014.
He acquired Peruvian citizenship in 2015.
He ran that diocese until 2023, when Francis asked to come to Rome to be head of the Vatican’s powerful Dicastery for Bishops, in charge of vetting nominations for senior clergy around the world.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
