Pope Leo XIV's maternal grandparents were black or mixed and of Creole descent, moving from New Orleans to Chicago at the turn of the 20th century, reports said Friday.

After Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was elected pope, genealogists got to work. What they found surprised them.

Pope Leo XIV, who is the first American pope in history, has lineage among “free people of color” in the U.S. dating back to at least the 1840s, a genealogist told Forbes.

When Henry Louis Gates Jr. set out to trace the family tree of America's first pope, he had no idea he was about to uncover ...

Pope Leo XIV’s family has roots in Louisiana’s Creole population, according to research by Jari C. Honora, a genealogist with the Historic New Orleans Collection.

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

Robert Francis Prevost, the newly appointed Catholic leader who took the name Pope Leo XIV, has a surprising connection to a Louisiana community with unique origins in the United States. The 69 ...

A noted historian dug into Pope Leo XIV‘s family tree, discovering it includes a who’s who of A-list celebrities, political figures and even a famous novelist.

The newly appointed Pope Leo XIV has several star studded branches on his family tree.

Pope Leo XIV’s maternal grandparents were black or mixed and of Creole descent, moving from New Orleans to Chicago at the turn of the 20th century, reports said Friday.