LUi additionally comes from afar. From Chicago. And Peru. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost is the brand new pope, succeeding François. Until then prefect of the dicastery for the bishops and archbishop-bishop emeritus of Chiclayo, the American who selected himself because the title Léon XIV was born on September 14, 1955 within the United States.
In 1977, he entered the novitiate of the Order of Saint-Augustin within the province of Notre-Dame du Bon Council, in Saint-Louis. On August 29, 1981, he pronounced his solemn needs. He studied on the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, the place he obtained a diploma in theology.
On mission in Peru
At 27, he was despatched by order to Rome to review canon regulation at Pontifical University of Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin. He was ordered a priest on June 19, 1982. He then obtained a license in 1984, earlier than being despatched on a mission to Chulucanas, Piura, Peru (1985-1986).
In 1988, he was despatched on a mission to Trujillo as director of the joint coaching mission for the Augustinian aspirants of the vicariats of Chulucanas, Iquitos and Apurímac. He was precedence of group (1988-1992), director of coaching (1988-1998) and trainer of the academics (1992-1998). In the Archdiocese of Trujillo, he was vicar judicial (1989-1998), professor of canon regulation, patristics and morals.
Bishop holder of the diocese of SUFAR
In 1999, he was elected provincial prior of the province “Mother of the Good Council” (Chicago). Two and a half years later, the bizarre common chapter elected him precedence, a ministry that the order once more entrusted to him within the common common chapter of 2007.
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In October 2013, he returned to Chicago to be a provincial trainer and vicar, capabilities he exercised till François appointed him, on November 3, 2014, apostolic administrator of the diocese of Chiclayo in Peru, by elevating it to episcopal dignity as a bishop holder of the diocese of Sofar.
He has been bishop of Chiclayo since September 26, 2015. Since January 30, 2023, he was president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.
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