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Live updates: Conclave elects Cardinal Robert Prevost to be Pope
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Leo is now tied for the fourth most common name chosen by popes, along with Clement. Only John, Gregory and Benedict have proven more popular. But we haven’t had a Pope Leo in more than a century. The last Pope Leo was Leo XIII, who was born in French-occupied Rome in 1810. He served as pope from 1878 until his death in 1903, making his 25-year papacy the fourth longest in the church’s history. Leo XIII is remembered as a pope of Catholic social teaching. He wrote a famous open... Read More



