• Saudi leadership congratulates Pope Leo XIV on his election as the new leader of the Catholic church

Arab News

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has congratulated Pope Leo XIV on Sunday on his election as the new leader of the Catholic church.

The king and his crown prince have sent “congratulatory telegrams to Pope Leo XIV on the occasion of his election as Pope of the Vatican,” read a statement on the Saudi Press Agency.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, now Leo XIV, was elected by the papal conclave on Thursday.

Pope Leo XIV will give his first Sunday blessing and address to a crowd in St Peter’s Square in the Vatican today.