Robert Francis Prevost will lead the Catholic Church as Pope Leo XIV, becoming the first pope to hail from the United States. Prevost received the necessary two-thirds majority vote to be elected pope,

Catholic cardinals gathered at the Vatican this week to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21.

A formal Mass to mark the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV will take place on May 18 in St. Peter's Square, the Vatican announced the day after stunning the world with the election of the first pope from the United States in the Church's history.