Pope Leo XIV, first US pope, addresses crowd at St Peter's Square

Robert Prevost, nan first US pope successful nan 2,000-year history of nan Catholic Church, has addressed nan crowd astatine St Peter's Square for nan first clip arsenic Pope Leo XIV.

From nan loggia of St Peter's Basilica, nan pope recalled he was an Augustinian priest, but that he was supra each a Christian and a bishop, "So we tin each locomotion together."

Robert Prevost, a 69-year-old personnel of nan Augustinian belief order, took nan sanction Leo XIV. He appeared wearing nan accepted reddish cape of nan papacy, a cape that Pope Francis had eschewed connected his predetermination successful 2013.

There had agelong been a taboo against a US pope, fixed nan geopolitical powerfulness already wielded by nan United States successful nan secular sphere.

But Prevost, a Chicago native, is besides a Peruvian national and lived for years successful Peru, first arsenic a missionary and past arsenic an archbishop.