The first ever American pontiff (given name Robert Prevost), is Leons, not Leo, because this is how the names of previous popes of the same name and similar Latin terms are rendered, explained linguists Andrejs Veisbergs, professor at the University of Latvia, and Dite Liepa, lecturer at Riga Stradiņš University.
As soon as the new Pope was elected, there was some confusion in the public sphere about how the Pope's name should be correctly rendered in Latvian, with both forms visi...