Harry Styles Makes Divine Appearance at Pope Leo XIV’s Conclave Election in Vatican City
The Father, the Son and the Hollywood cousins.
It turns out, the newly appointed Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost) has an astonishingly celebrity-ridden family tree.
According to Finding Your Roots host Henry Louis Gates Jr., through a maternal ancestor born in the 1590s, the Chicago-born Pope Leo is ninth cousins—various times removed—with stars such as Justin Bieber, Madonna and Angelina Jolie.
Other significant ninth cousins include politicians Hillary Clinton and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as well as his father and fellow Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, and famed writer Jack Kerouac.
Henry’s investigation into the new pope’s family tree also revealed an especially American background, reflective of the centuries of immigration the country has experienced. Of the ancestors found in Pope Leo’s family tree, he had family born in France, Italy, Spain, Cuba, Canda, Haiti and the French overseas department of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean.
Pope Leo’s ascension marks the first time a North American was elected to head the Catholic Church, and his first remarks as Pope spoke to the idea of bridging global boundaries.
