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Shock at first US pope in Leo XIV's university city

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost on the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter's Basilica, The Vatican, on May 8, 2025. [AFP]

The archbishop of Philadelphia, the US city where the first American pope Leo XIV spent his student days, told AFP after the pontiff was elected that he "honestly didn't think it would be him".

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