Who is Robert Prevost, the new Pope Leo XIV?

Even before his name was announced from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, the crowds below chant “Viva Il Papa” – let the Pope live.

Robert Prevost, 69 years old, will become 267th resident of St. Peter’s throne, and he will be known as Leo XIV.

He will become the first American to replenish the role of the Pope, although he is considered as much Cardinal from Latin America from the many years he spent as a missionary in Peru before becoming an archbishop there.

He has Peruvian nationality and was remembered with love as a figure who worked with marginalized communities and helped build bridges in the local church.

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Born in Chicago in 1955, prevail served as an altar and was ordained as a priest in 1982.

In his first words, as the Pope, Leo XIV spoke about his predecessor Francis.

“We still hear a weak, but always courageous voice of Pope Francis, who has blessed us,” he said.

“The united and hand in hand with God, let’s move together,” he said a cheerful crowd.

He said the crowd, listening to St. Peter that he was a member of the Augustine Order. He was 30 when he moved to Peru as part of the Augustine mission.

Francis made him bishop Chikki in Peru a year after the Pope became.

It is well known for cardinals around the world because of the high-profile role of the Dicaster prefect for bishops.

Since 80% of the cardinals participated in the conclave were appointed Francis, it was not as strange that someone, like Prevost, was chosen.

It will be regarded as a figure that preferred the continuity of Francis’ reforms in the Catholic Church.

Despite the fact that he will be fully aware of the divisions in the Catholic Church, his Latin American von is also a continuity after the Pope who came from Argentina.

Although during his Archbishop in Peru, he did not escape the scandals with sexual violence that clouded the church, his diocese passionately denied that he participated in any attempt to cover.

Before the Conclaph, the Vatican’s press secretary Matteo Bruni said that during the college’s college meetings, they emphasized the Pope with a “prophetic spirit, capable of leading a church that does not close, but knows how to get out and bring light into the world.”