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            <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, on May 9, congratulated the Catholic community on the election of Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new pope.</p>

<p>Prevost, 69, became the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church.</p><div id="itemBannerCenter"><amp-iframe width="328" height="78" layout="fixed" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups" frameBorder="0" class="preferred-source-banner" src="https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/sites/banners/itne/preferred-source-new.html?v=1.017&page=article#amp=1"></amp-iframe></div>

<p>"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.</p>

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<p>Prevost, a member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV.</p>
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            <div class="text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, on May 9, congratulated the Catholic community on the election of Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new pope.</p>

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<p>"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.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en" xml:lang="en">Congratulations to all the Catholics around the world on the election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as the new Pope- Pope Leo XIV. <a href="https://t.co/pZD5NxqJcl">pic.twitter.com/pZD5NxqJcl</a></p>
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) <a href="https://twitter.com/himantabiswa/status/1920687228604264821?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
<script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p>Prevost, a member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV.</p>
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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.

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.

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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.

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