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Cardinal Robert Francis, President of the United States of America, has been elected as the 267th pope and appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica as the new leader of the 1.4 billion Catholics around the world.
Revost (69), a native of Chicago, Illinois, is the first Pope Ikada of the United Nations. A papal name for Lav XIV.
He has a rich international background, has spent his career as a missionary in South America, and is reportedly at the head of the powerful Vatican Dicastery for the appointment of a bishop. It is expected that the reforms initiated by Pope Francis will be implemented, writes CNN.
For ten years he is radio in Truhilju, in Peru, and then he is named as Bishop of Chiklaj, the second Peruvian diocese, where he is serving from 2014 to 2023.
In an interview with the Vatican News, the prefect of the Dicastery explains the role of the bishop, the priest says: "I continue to consider myself a missionary. My goal, as is the goal of every Christian, is to be a missionary, to spread the Gospel and to read it.
As the National Catholic reporter writes, Cardinal Robert Prevost (69) speaks to the Vatican Dicastery for bishops, the office responsible for advising the pope on behalf of bishops around the world.
Born in Chicago in 1955, Provost graduated from Villanova University in Pennsylvania, the Catholic Theological Council in Chicago and the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome.
In 1985, Robert Prevost joined the Augustinian mission in Peru, establishing a series of publications inspired by St. Augustine, which he equated with "love and discipleship". The Augustinian friars led a semi-monastic way of life and were engaged in various activities, such as education or the joy of closure.
With 30 years, the Rev. is assigned to the ministry in Peru, where he served until 1999. years, with a brief return to Chicago in 1987. as a radio station as a župnik arrested for the title and director of the mission of his Augustinian province.
After his early years in Peru, the Provost was demoted to a higher rank - he was given the episcopal diocese, serving as a judge in the red court and vodio county on the outskirts of the city of Truhilja.
In 1999, he was elected to lead the Augustinian provinces with seventeen in Chicago. In 2001, Zatim was elected Prior General of the Augustinian Order at the Swedish level, a position he held until 2013. Tokom tog period bio is the seventeenth in Rome, but it is eternal time to spend traveling, visiting ready 50 fields in which the Augustinian order is attached.
In 2014, Pope Franjo was again sent to the mission field, appointing him as Bishop of Cyclades, in the north of Peru, where he will serve until 2023, when he is called back to Rome for permanent service in the Roman Curia.
In Rome, the Provost enjoys the attention of a free and consecrated man who is equally devoted to identifying new bishops and to solving difficult cases — the beginning of Bishop Joseph Strickland, who is the head of the bishopric of Thais, Smiler. 2023. years.
The Vatican bishop reports a unique combination of pastoral skills from the church's periphery and expertise in leading the complexities of the central church's administration — a rare combination among those under the leadership of a pope who shared the priorities of Pope Francis, but always overwhelmingly managed the administration.