Robert Francis Prevost, the American-born cardinal who was elected pope on Thursday, overcame what many saw as long-shot odds for the papacy.
Here’s a brief timeline for the Roman Catholic Church leader now known as Pope Leo XIV.
1955
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Robert Francis Prevost is born in Chicago a school superindendant and a librarian, members of St. Mary of the Assumption Parish (now closed) in the Riverdale neighborhood on the South Side. He attends St. Augustine Seminary High School in Holland, Mich., a boarding school for boys.
1977
1981
1982
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He receives a Master in Divinity from the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and is sent to study in Rome, where he is ordained as a priest.
1985
1987
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He receives a doctoral degree from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, and the following year joins a mission in Trujillo, Peru.
