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The successor of Pope Francis has been selected. Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago, the first American pope. According to the Vatican, he will go by Leo XIV. Here's what we know. Who is the new pope?

The late Pope Francis was elected in two days with five ballots and the two popes before him had been elected in two or three days. The longest conclave on record dragged on for nearly three years.