A priest has discovered an eye-opening link between a British-born teenager set to be canonized - and the newly-elected Pope.

Carlo Acutis, known as 'God's influencer', will become the Catholic Church's first millennial to be appointed as a saint at a date yet to be confirmed.

The London-born 'techie' teen - born in 1991 to an Italian mother and half Italian, half English father - died in 2006 from leukaemia.

Since then he has received worldwide acclaim for his religious devotion and the attribution of miracles since his tragic passing.

But now Father David Michael Moses of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston has noticed a startling connection the late teenager and Pope Leo XIV, ChurchPop reported.