The new Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, attended several educational institutions during his formation:

• He first studied at the Minor Seminary of the Augustinian Fathers.
• He then earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Villanova University in Pennsylvania in 1977.
• After Villanova, he obtained a Master of Divinity from the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago in 1982.
• He pursued advanced studies in canon law at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome, earning a licentiate in 1984 and a doctorate in 1987.

Thus, his formal education includes Villanova University, Catholic Theological Union, and the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome