The College of Cardinals gathered in Rome this month to select the 267th pope, which it did relatively early — on the fourth round of voting.

Bishop Robert Prevost was selected as the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church, and is the first U.S.-born pontiff, taking the name Pope Leo XIV.

With that in mind two of our selections for most notable popes were Leos, I and the XIII, the first and the last prior to the current pontiff.

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