Himanta Biswa Sarma congratulates Catholics on election of new pope
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma congratulates the Catholic community on the election of Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Prevost is the first US-born pope in Catholic Church history.
India TodayNE
- May 09, 2025,
- Updated May 09, 2025, 11:00 AM IST
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, on May 9, congratulated the Catholic community on the election of Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new pope.
Prevost, 69, became the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church.
"Congratulations to all the Catholics around the world on the election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as the new Pope - Pope Leo XIV," Sarma said in a post on X.
Prevost, a member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV.
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