Peru, Pope Leo XIV
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Xavier Junior Faviana Azalde Castro was confirmed by Pope Leo XIV when he was the arch bishop of Chicaylo, Peru.
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Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost has been chosen by the conclave to be the next pope. He will be known as Pope Leo XIV. Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, has been ...
Prevost, a U.S. native and naturalized citizen of Peru, spent his childhood growing up in Chicago. Here's what we know about his family.
The bells of the cathedral in Peru’s capital, Lima, rang after Prevost was elected pope. Robert Prevost, an missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops,
Augustinian Sister Marlene Quispe of the Monastery of the Incarnation in Lima, Peru, said that as their religious brother, the future pope walked the path toward what St. Augustine of Hippo, the order’s founder, wanted: unity.
Pope Leo XIV has been known as the “Latin Yankee” in Rome for the decades he worked in Peru, ministering to the dispossessed and marginalized.
Thousands of Catholics packed the plaza outside the Cathedral of Santa Maria de Chiclayo in this northern Peruvian city to celebrate a Mass of thanksgiving for an adoptive son: Pope Leo XIV.