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Cardinal Robert F. Prevost was selected Thursday to lead the Catholic Church as Pope Leo XIV.
Rev. Mark Brennan is the Bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, which encompasses all of West Virginia. He released a brief statement on the diocese website offering prayer for the new pontiff.
“As Catholics in America, let us pray especially for Leo XIV, that the Holy Spirit continue to guide him as he begins his service to the Catholic Church throughout the world,” Brennan said in his statement.
Pope Leo, who was born in Chicago and served extensively in Peru, is the first pope from the United States or North American. He is the second pope in a row to be elected from the Americas after the late Pope Francis, who was from Argentina.
A devout Catholic, U.S. Rep. Riley Moore, R-W.Va., also released a statement praising the election of an American to lead the church, and wished many years of good health on the new pope.
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