08/05/2025
HABEMUS PAPAM! | Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, is from Chicago. He was ordained a priest for the Order of Saint Augustine in Rome on 19 June 1982. He became the Provincial of the Augustinians in Chicago in 1999, and in 2001, he became the Augustinian Prior General.
On November 3, 2014, Pope Francis appointed Prevost as apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Chiclayo and titular bishop of Sufar. He was consecrated Bishop on December 12 in that same year. He became Bishop of Chiclayo a year later. In 2019, he was appointed as a member of the Congregation for the Clergy. A year later, he was made a member of the Congregation for Bishops.
On 30 January 2023, he was made prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops. Later that same year, on 30 September, he was made a Cardinal by Pope Francis.
Bringing to the Papacy his expertise in Canon Law, and his years of Pastoral Experience in the Order of Saint Augustine, we hope and pray for a fruitful Papacy, and that Pope Leo XIV would bring us forward into the Modern Age, especially as we journey through the Jubilee Year.
