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Pope Leo XIV related to Madonna, Justin Bieber and Hillary Clinton as pontiff’s star-studded family tree revealed

NEWLY elected Pope Leo XIV is related to a high-profile cast of A-list celebrities, but his ancestry still has humble roots, his family tree has revealed.

Researchers found that Robert Francis Prevost, the first American to ever lead the Catholic Church, is related to Madonna, Justin Bieber, Hillary Clinton, and other influential stars.

Pope Leo XIV is related to several A-list celebrities, according to a newly published family treeCredit: EPA

Justin Bieber is one of the celebrities who have been linked to the PopeCredit: Getty

Madonna is also a distant cousin of the Catholic Church leaderCredit: Getty

Hillary Clinton was linked to the religious leaderCredit: Gett

Prevost’s ancestry was traced by academic Henry Louis Gates Jr., the American Ancestors research center, and the Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami, and the results were published in a bombshell New York Times story.

Gates Jr, who is known for his research on African American culture and history, took an interest in the project after learning about Prevost’s Black ancestry.

According to the researcher, the Pope’s maternal grandparents, who lived in New Orleans, Louisiana, were described as “mulatto” and “Black” in public records.

“This was earthshaking news, but we knew it was only the beginning,” Gates Jr. wrote.

Prevost was 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 and raised in Chicago, Illinois, and is of French, Italian, Spanish, and Creole descent.

One of his eighth-great-grandparents moved from France to Quebec, Canada, by the mid to late 1650s, which is where his celebrity links come from.

Prevost descends from Canadian ancestor Louis Boucher de Grandpre, who was 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 in Quebec, and through Grandpre has several distant cousins.

These cousins include former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his brother Pierre, actress Angelina Jolie, Hillary Clinton, singer Justin Bieber, novelist Jack Kerouac, and Madonna.

After Prevost’s family tree was published, superstar singer Madonna, whose parents were Roman Catholic, shared her excitement on social media.

In an Instagram story, she shared a picture of herself throwing her hands up in excitement alongside her father Silvio Ciccone and wrote, “Silvio! We’re related to the Pope!

“Strike a pose!” she wrote in the excited picture, before sharing the New York Times headline with her followers.

Madonna celebrated the report with an excited picture alongside her dadCredit: Instagram/@madonna

Former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his brother were linked to the PopeCredit: Getty

All of the celebrities, including actress Angelina Jolie, share French Canadian ancestors with PrevostCredit: GettyPOPE’S ANCESTRY

The motley crew of celebrities wasn’t the only bombshell revelation found in the Pope’s family tree.

The farthest back that his ancestry was traced was back to Spain in the 1500s on his mother’s side, and through that lineage, genealogists found that Prevost is related to minor nobility.

Four of his 11th-great-grandfathers were listed as “hidalgos,” which means gentlemen, in the 1573 census for the small town of Isla.

But Prevost’s ancestry isn’t all noble. At least 17 of his ancestors were identified as partially Black, and many of them were once enslaved.

Researchers say that his ancestry became intertwined with African Americans when relatives moved from Canada to New Orleans.

One fourth-great-grandmother of the Pope, Marie Jeanne, was an enslaved “mulata,” a dated term to describe someone with Black and white ancestry.

She was counted among the property of François Lemelle, who lived in New Orleans.

After Lemelle died, he left Jeanne one-fifth of his estate, including some enslaved people. Thirty years after his death, she owned 1,040 acres, and she went on to own at least 20 slaves.

LEO’S FAMILY

Today, Prevost is known as a beloved sibling and uncle by his brothers, who were elated to hear about his election.

After he was chosen for the sacred position, Pope Leo’s brother John, 71, said his sibling used to “play priest so he put a tablecloth over our mom’s ironing board and we had to go to Mass.”

He said the Pope would use the candy Necco Wafers as “communion” wafers as they played pretend.

“It was all taken very seriously, it was not a joke,” John said.

Louis Prevost, the Pope’s oldest brother, said that he always knew that his sibling was destined for greatness.

“From the time he was five or six years old he knew this was his fate — not that he would be Pope, but that he would be a priest,” Louis told Good Morning America.

“He had that from a very young age, and he never faltered

“We used to tease him all the time, ‘You’re going to be the Pope one day.’

“We knew something was special about him.”

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