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A New Orleans historian says newly elected Pope Leo XIV has ancestors in Louisiana.
Historian Jari Honora stated on Thursday that the former Cardinal Robert Prevost has roots in the New Orleans Creole community.
Honora says the pope's maternal grandparents were married in 1887 at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart on Annette Street in New Orleans.
The couple lived on North Prieur Street in the 7th Ward before moving to Chicago around 1912.
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