As announced from the balcony of St. Peter’s by the Prefect pf the Apostolic Signature, Cardinal Dominique Mamberti, a 73-year-old Frenchman born in Morocco.
Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: Habemus papam: Eminentissimum ac reverendissimum Dominum Prevost, Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalem Francesco, qui sibi nomen imposuit Leo XIV.
He is the 267th Pope and the first American to be so named. He is to be known as Pope Leo XIV. He is a member of the Order of St Augustine.