New genealogical research traces the Pope’s ancestry back to the 1500s, revealing what Harvard historian Henry Louis Gates Jr ...

This chart was prepared by Henry Louis Gates Jr., American Ancestors and the Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami. It reflects the ...

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

Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...

As it happened, the pope has several generations of Cuban ancestors.

Pope Leo’s lineage is international. His ancestors were born in France, Italy, Spain, the US, Cuba, Canada, Haiti, and ...

But above all, it was found through the extension of work carried out by genealogist Jari C. Honora, that the leader of the ...

It turns out, the newly appointed Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost) has an astonishingly celebrity-ridden family ...

Soon after Pope Leo XIV became the first American pope on May 8, reports came in that he has African-American ancestry, that ...

The newly appointed Pope Leo XIV has several star studded branches on his family tree. The New York Times took deep dive into ...

Pope Leo XIV's star-studded family tree connects him to Madonna, two pop icons and an Oscar winner Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.com; By DEIRDRE DURKAN-SIMONDS FOR DAILYMAIL.COM ...