Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...

Pope Leo’s lineage is international. His ancestors were born in France, Italy, Spain, the US, Cuba, Canada, Haiti, and ...

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.

Vevette Hill-Nwagbaraocha attends All Saints Catholic Church, also on the north side. She, too, is hopeful and excited about Pope Leo, regardless of how he identifies. But his lineage, she said, ...

Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes a deep dive into the pope's past in New York Times Magazine piece.

Pope Leo XIV made history as the first U.S.-born pontiff. It was recently revealed that he has Louisiana Creole ancestry. Jari Honora, a family historian at The Historic New Orleans Collection, made ...

Through the genealogy server on Discord, they helped reveal the recent discovery that Pope Leo ... fascinating events that played out in Pope Leo XIV’s family tree.” In 1917, Riggitano ...