US EditionPope Leo 'fell in love with Peru' and ceviche: Peru bishop
- Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected as Pope Leo XIV on May 8, 2025, becoming the 267th leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.
- Prevost’s election followed Pope Francis’s papacy and was influenced by his long missionary service in Peru from 1985 to 1998 and his dual American-Peruvian identity.
- Prevost served as bishop and apostolic administrator in Peru, including Chiclayo, where he gained a reputation for commitment to the poor and love for local culture and cuisine like ceviche.
- Local leaders praised him as 'more than an American' and a Peruvian by choice, highlighting his focus on poverty and marginalized people, with his close associates noting his prudence and deep resolve.
- His election symbolizes continuity with Latin America and suggests a papacy shaped by firsthand experience of faith and social challenges in Peru, which may influence his global leadership.
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Pope Leo XIV’s missionary work in Peru
Pope Leo XIV greets the faithful in St. Peter's Square shortly after his election to the papacy, Thursday, May 8, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Lima Newsroom, May 9, 2025 / 14:49 pm (CNA). In some of his first words to the world on May 8, newly-elected Pope Leo XIV recalled the land where he worked as a missionary from 1985 to 1998.“And if you will allow me a word, a greeting to all those… in a particular way to my beloved Diocese of Chiclay…
Pope Leo XIV, this is the house where Pope Robert Prevost lived in Peru
The images show the house of Pope Leo XIV in Trujillo, Peru, where he lived for several years while serving as Augustinian missionary. During this period, the American pontiff Robert Prevost was affiliated to the Augustinian Convent of St. Thomas of Villanueva, a key center of the Augustinian Order in the country. Leo XIV arrived in Peru as a missionary almost four decades ago, then becoming bishop of the diocese of Chiclayo, in the north-west o…
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