Can Pope Leo retain US citizenship while leading a foreign government?
by Associated Press from World news | The Guardian on (#6XH6G)
US state department says on website it may actively review' status of Americans who serve as a foreign head of state'
Pope Leo XIV's election as the first US-born leader of the Roman Catholic church elevated him to the rare, legally thorny, position of being an American citizen who now is also a foreign head of state.
Born in Chicago as Robert Prevost in 1955, the new pope for the past decade has held dual citizenship in the US and Peru, where he spent time as a missionary and bishop.
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