The world and Catholics throughout the globe now have a new Pope.
The Conclave voted in Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new head of the Catholic Church. Prevost takes the name Pope Leo XIV (14th).
Meanwhile, Papua New Guinea’s Cardinal, Sir John Ribat, was one of the members of the Conclave that took part in the vote of the new Pope.
Robert Prevost, 69, will be the 267th occupant of the throne of St Peter.
He is the first American to fill the role of Pope, although he is considered as much a cardinal from Latin America because of the many years he spent as a missionary in Peru, before becoming a bishop there.
Born in Chicago in 1955 to parents of Spanish and Franco-Italian descent, Prevost served as an altar boy and was ordained as a priest in 1982. Although he moved to Peru three years later, he returned regularly to the US to serve as a pastor and a prior in his home city.
US President Donald Trump has called the election of the first American pope a “great honour” for the country and said he looks forward to meeting him.