Why does Robert Prevost Becoming New Pope Matter to the Worlds 2025 Political Undercurrents?

BENGALURU, India - May 15, 2025 - PRLog -- Who is the New Pope 2025 Robert Prevost?

Robert Francis Prevost, 69 years old, will be the 267th St Peter throne occupant who will be called Leo XIV. He is the first American to take on the office of pope, but he is treated almost from Latin America because of the countless years he served as a missionary in Peru.

Prevost, who was born in 1955 to parents of Spanish and Franco-Italian fathers in Chicago, attended church services as an altar boy and became ordained in 1982.

Even though he went to Peru three years later, he came back reguarly to the US to be a pastor and a prior in the city where he grew up.

He is of Peruvian nationality and is lovingly remembered as a man who worked with marginalised communities and worked on building bridges.

He had served 10 years as loco parish pastor and as a teaching at seminary at Trujillo, north-western Peru. In his first words as Pope, Leo XIV spoke fondly of Francis his predecessor.

"We still hear in our ears the weak but always courageous voice of Pope Francis who blessed us", he said.

"United and hand in hand with God, let us advance together," he told cheering crowds.

The Pope also expressed himself about his role on the Augustinian Order. In 2014, Francis made him Bishop of Chiclayo in Peru.

He is very well known to cardinals because of his prominent position as prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops in Latin America, which has the task of appointing and overseeing bishops.

He was appointed archbishop in January 2023 and in a matter of months Francis appointed him a cardinal.

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