Robert Francis Prevost — who took the name Pope Leo XIV — emerged onto the balcony at St. Peter’s Basilica Thursday as the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
But, he would also be the first ever American pope and the first pope to have graduated from a Philadelphia area college.
Before he was named as the pontiff, Prevost, who was born in Chicago, Il., attended classes at Villanova University, earning a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 1977…