Pope Leo XIV’s election as the primary U.S.-born chief of the Catholic Church elevated him to the extraordinarily uncommon, and legally thorny, place of being an American citizen who now can be a overseas head of state.
Born in Chicago as Robert Prevost in 1955, the brand new pope for the previous decade has held twin citizenship within the U.S. and Peru, the place he frolicked as a missionary and bishop.
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