Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary, was elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, on Thursday made his first American bishop appointment as he named Bishop Michael Pham as bishop of San Diego, California.

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