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Pope Leo XIV

267th Pope of the Catholic Church (2025–)

  • Fame81.5
  • Momentum1.3
  • United States rank#189
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  • Fame81.5
  • Momentum1.3
  • United States rank#189
  • Religious Figures rank#6
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Born 1955 · age 71United States
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  • Wikipedia
    156 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Rank in United States
    #189
    Religious Figures
  • Age
    71
    Born 1955
  • Known for
    Secrets of the Conclave
    2025
Summary
Updated 2026-08-30

The first American pope, elected in 2025 as a dark horse precisely because Vatican insiders thought a pontiff from a superpower was impossible. He took the name Leo XIV to signal a response to artificial intelligence the way Leo XIII answered the Second Industrial Revolution.

Biography

About

Born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago in 1955, he became an Augustinian friar in 1977 and was ordained five years later. After earning a Doctor of Canon Law in Rome in 1987, he spent the late '80s and '90s doing missionary work across Peru—parish pastor, seminary teacher, diocesan administrator. Elected prior general of the Augustinians in 2001, he spent twelve years traveling the order's global network from a Rome base, then returned to Peru as Bishop of Chiclayo in 2015. Pope Francis brought him back to Rome in 2023 as prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and made him a cardinal. Two years…

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In their own words

Sourced, dated quotes from Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo XIV
said
Today we desolately witness the unjust use of hunger as a weapon of war. Starving the population is a very cheap way of waging war.
— As quoted in Address to the FAO (June 30, 2025)
Pope Leo XIV
said
We continue to follow carefully and with hope the developments in Iran, Israel and Palestine.
— General audience of June 25, 2025
Pope Leo XIV
said
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights , approved and proclaimed by the United Nations on 10 December 1948, is now part of humanity’s cultural heritage.
— Address to members of the international inter-parliamentary union (June 21, 2025)
Pope Leo XIV
said
A bishop must not be a little prince sitting in his kingdom.
— As quoted in Cardinal Prevost: "A bishop must not be a little prince" (25 October 2024)
Pope Leo XIV
said
Sometimes the bishop risks focusing only on the local dimension.
— Archbishop Prevost: ‘The bishop is a pastor, not a manager’ (4 May 2023) Vatican News
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Score breakdown

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Fame
Stable
81.5
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum1.3
Historical39.6
Now attention8.2
Source confidence75.0
Completeness85.0
Global rank
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Country rank
#189
Category rank
#6
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