Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes a deep dive into the pope's past in New York Times Magazine piece.

As soon as Robert Prevost was elevated to pope in May, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the team he works with for PBS's Finding Your Roots began digging into the pope's family history.

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

Pope Leo XIV is distantly related to a number of prominent figures, including Hillary Clinton and former Canadian Prime ...

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

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

A new genealogical investigation into Pope Leo XIV —born Robert Prevost—revealed that His Holiness is distantly related to none other than Madonna, Justin Bieber, Angelina Jolie, and even Hillary ...

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

Arguable the most controversial of the publication's findings is that Pope Leo is also related to Grammy icon Madonna through ...

"What does the pope think about us being related? That's my question," one cousin said. "What does he think of us because ...

Pope Leo XIV, who made history as the first American pope when he was elected in May 2025, is connected to several famous ...

The Times discovered that the Chicago native is related to Pierre and Justin Trudeau, Angelina Jolie, Hillary Clinton, Justin ...