The new Roman pontiff attended high school in western Michigan.

For Michigan natives, that sentence might take a while to sink in.

As the world learned the identity of the 267th pope and the 266th successor to St. Peter on May 8, few expected to see an American step out onto the loggia above St. Peter’s Square. But that’s exactly what happened as the former Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, an Augustinian priest born in Chicago who spent much of his ministry in Peru, waved to the world for the first time as Pope Leo XIV.

Although the new pope spent most of his childhood in the greater Chicago area, he did attend high school in western Michigan, at the now-closed St. Augustine Seminary High School in Holland, to be exact.

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A pope with Midwest roots: Pope Leo attended seminary high school in western Michigan - Detroit Catholic

Chicago-born Cardinal Prevost — now Pope Leo XIV — graduated from Holland's now-closed St. Augustine Seminary High School