A photo gallery of new Pope Leo XIV’s path to the Vatican

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Pope Leo XIV announced on May 8, 2025 as New Pontif

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May 12, 2025 4:07 pm Edt

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Robert Francis Prevost, Future Pop Lio XIV, is in fourth place from left to the left with her second class at St. Mary of the Assurance School in 1962. (St. Mary of the Assurance School)

Pope John Paul II meets future Pope Leo XIV

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Robert Prevost – Now Pope Leo XIV – is painted in an undivided photo with Pope John Paul II. (Good lawyer through Reuters/Our mother’s Augustinian province of handout)

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Robert Prevost was seen in an undivided image with Pope John Paul II. (Good lawyer through Reuters/Our mother’s Augustinian province of handout)

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The undivided photo of Robert Prevost with Pope John Paul II. (Good lawyer through Reuters/Our mother’s Augustinian province of handout)

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Archbishop Robert Francis Prevost received a red bilata from Pope Francis on 30 September 2023 at St. Peter Square in Vatican City, Vatican. (Isabella Bonoto/Anadolu Agency through Getty Image)

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On May 9, 2025, Dolton closes St. Mary of Pop Leo XIV as Pop Leo XIV’s closure of St. Mary. (Kamil krzaczynski/AFP through Getty Image)

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Robert Francis Prevost during a simple public consistent to manufacture New Cardinal at St. Peter Square on September 30, 2023 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Vatican Media through Vatican Pool/Getty Image)

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A photo of The Under Lady of Monsrat Parish in Truzilo, Northern Peru, where Robert Francis Prevost was the Parish Administrator from 1992 to 1999, as the 267th Pontif of the Catholic Church on his election day. (Stephano Palomino/AFP via Getty Image)

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Archbishop Robert Francis Prevost posed after the cardinal rank on the Vatican, September 30, 2023. (Reuters/Yara Nardi)

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Archbishop Robert Francis Prevost and Cardinal Pieitro Parolin participate in the Palm Sunday month at the Vatican City, Vatican on 13 April 2025 in St. Peter Square in Vatican. (Franco Origaria/Getty Images)

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The picture of the room at the chapel of the Augustine Convent Santo Tomas de Villueva, where Robert Francis Prevost took his election day on his election day as the 267th Pontiff of the Catholic Church, in Trujilo in North Peru between 1988 and 1998. (Stephano Palomino/AFP via Getty Image)

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Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, attended the 7th November 2025 in the 7th November Basilica in Vatican City, Vatican, Vatican. (Photo by Franco Original/Getty Image) (Photo by Franco Original/Getty Image)

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Late Pope Francis congratulated the Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost on the Jubilee of the Armed Forces, police and security personnel at St. Peter Square on 9 February 2025 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Vatican Media through Vatican Pool/Getty Image)

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Archbishop Robert Francis Prevost attends the funeral of Pope Francis at St. Peter Square in Vatican City, Vatican on 26 April 2025. (Franco Origaria/Getty Images)

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Archbishop Robert Francis Prevost led the Rosary Prayer for the health of Pope Francis at St. Peter Square in Vatican City on March 3, 2025. (Christopher Ferlong/Getty Images)

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Cardinal Robert Prevost participated in the holy month, celebrated on 7 May 2025 before the election of a new Pope at St. Peter Basilica in Vatican. (Reuters/Murad Sezer)

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During the Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a supporter Eligendo Romano ahead of the Conclave during the Pontifice month, in which he and other Cardinal Electors were called to choose a new pope in the Vatican on May 7, 2025. (Through Ricardo de Luka/Anadolu Getty Image)

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Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost led a prayer service at St. Peter Square, as the late Pope Francis admitted his hospital to Vatican on March 3, 2025. (Reuters/Hannah Mcke)

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On May 8, 2025, the newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears on the Basilica balcony of St. Peter in Vatican. (Reuters/Yara Nardi)

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From the balcony of the Pope Leo XIV Saint Peter Basilica, waves in the Vatican on 8 May 2025. (Reuters/Guglilmo Mangiapen)

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Father Ramiro Castilo, a picture depicting the North August’s Wicker Superior, Robert Francis Prevost, which became the Pope Leo XIV on 8 May, 2025, as he with the people present in our Lady of Monsrat Parish with the people in his Lady of Monsrat Parish, from 1992 to 1992, with Trujilo. 267th Pontiff. (Stephano Palomino/AFP via Getty Image)

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Pope Leo XIV leads the Pro Eclesia mass in the Vatican City, Vatican on 9 May 2025, in Vatican Chapel. (Vatican Media/Vatican Pool – Corbis/Getty Images)

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A person takes a picture of Pope Leo XIV’s childhood house on May 9, 2025 in Dolton, Illinois. (Kamil krzaczynski/AFP through Getty Image)

Pope Leo addresses the college of XIV Cardinals

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The Pope Leo XIV Vatican, Saturday, meets the college of Cardinals in the new Dharmasabha Hall on Saturday, May 10, 2025. (Vatican media through AP)

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The Pop Leo XIV distributes Regina Callie prayer from the Basilica Basilica’s main central Lazia balcony in Vatican on May 11, 2025. (Alberto Pizoli/AFP via Getty Image)