Robert Francis Prevost, OSA, né le 14 septembre 1955 à Chicago (Illinois, États-Unis), est un prélat catholique américano-péruvien, élu pape le 8 mai 2025 sous le nom de Léon XIV. En qualité d’évêque de Rome, il est le 267^e pape de l’Église catholique ainsi que le chef d’État du Vatican. Il est le premier souverain pontife né aux États-Unis, ainsi que le septième pape augustinien (le dernier étant Eugène IV mort en 1447).

De nationalité américaine puis plus tard également péruvienne, il est membre de l’ordre de Saint Augustin. Il est en mission au Pérou entre 1985 et 1998, puis exerce des responsabilités à la maison-mère de son ordre à Rome de 2001 à 2013. Il est ensuite nommé évêque du diocèse péruvien de Chiclayo.

Le 30 janvier 2023, il est choisi pour succéder au cardinal Ouellet à la tête du Dicastère pour les évêques ; il prend ses fonctions le 12 avril suivant. Le 30 septembre de la même année, il est créé cardinal par le pape François.

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A new Pope has been elected,

Pope Leo XIV

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost

The papal conclave of 2025 was convened to elect a pope, the leader of the Catholic Church, to succeed Francis following his death on 21 April 2025. In accordance with the apostolic constitution Universi Dominici gregis, which governed the vacancy of the Holy See, only cardinals who had not passed their 80th birthdays on the day on which the Holy See became vacant (in this case, those who were born on or after 21 April 1945) were eligible to participate in the conclave. Although not a formal requirement, the cardinal electors invariably elect the pope from among their number. The election was carried out by secret ballot (Latin: per scrutinium).

Of the 252 members of the College of Cardinals at the time of Francis’s death, 135 cardinal electors were eligible to participate in the subsequent conclave. Two cardinal electors announced that they did not plan to attend, decreasing the expected number of participants to 133. To be elected pope, a candidate requires a two-thirds supermajority of the participating electors, or 89 votes.

Of the 133 cardinal electors in attendance, 5 were cardinal bishops, 108 were cardinal priests, and 20 were cardinal deacons; 5 were created cardinals by Pope John Paul II, 20 by Pope Benedict XVI, and 108 by Pope Francis; 29 worked in the service of the Holy See (such as in the Roman Curia), 79 were in pastoral ministry outside Rome, and 26 were retired. The oldest eligible cardinal elector was Carlos Osoro Sierra, at the age of 79, and the youngest was Mykola Bychok, at the age of 45. Another 116 cardinals were ineligible to participate in the conclave due to their age.

The cardinal electors entered the Sistine Chapel to begin the conclave on 7 May 2025. On 8 May, after four ballots over two days, they elected Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, who took the papal name Leo XIV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_electors_in_the_2025_papal_conclave

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The Holy See is currently in a period of sede vacante, which began on 21 April 2025 upon the death of Pope Francis. 

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What the conclave schedule could look like
As we approach the start of the conclave on Wednesday, here’s a tentative breakdown of what the schedule could look like. Caveat: This is based on 2013, when there were 117 electors, versus this time, when there are expected to be 133. We also don’t know yet what time they will begin the mornings yet. But this gives you an idea of what we could expect.

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