White smoke emerged from the Sistine Chapel on the evening of Thursday, May 8, signaling that the Vatican has elected a new Pope. After a short wait, Cardinal Dominique François Joseph Mamberti stepped out onto the balcony overlooking St.

Volodymyr Zelensky congratulated the election of the new pope. "Ukraine deeply values the Holy See’s consistent position in upholding international law," he wrote on the X service. At the end, he used a Latin acclamation that means "for many more years.