Pope Leo XIV was born Robert Francis Prevost in the South Side of Chicago in 1955, the son of a superintendent and a librarian. After studying mathematics at Villanova University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he made solemn vows in the Order of St Augustine and was ordained a priest in Rome in 1982. He served as the Prior General in the Order of Saint Augustine, was consecrated bishop in 2014 and was made cardinal in 2023. On 8 May 2025, he was elected to the papacy.
