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Cardinal Prevost elected Pope Leo XIV, first USA pontiff (www.vaticannews.va)

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[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Why do they change their names?

[–] rxbudian@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 months ago

It started when one of the early popes having a pagan god name. Then becomes a tradition for Non-Roman names.(source)
Other articles also mention that some want to give signal the direction of their papacy

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