'Peace be with you all,' Pope Leo XIV says in first speech

by Jayden

Robert Prevost, 69, has been elected as the new pope and will be known as Leo XIV.

In his first address from the balcony of St Peter's Basilica on Thursday evening, Leo XIV spoke warmly about his predecessor and thanked the cardinals who had elected him to succeed the late Pope Francis.

Here is a translation of the speech which he delivered in Italian and Spanish:

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