After less than 24 hours in Vatican, Cardinals have finished with 2025 Popal Conclave Selecting a new pontifThe The guy has chosen, Cardinal Robert PrivostPope Leo will be known as the fourth – the first pope from the United States of America.
Here is what to know about him.
Where did Pope Leo Fourth come from?
Pope Leo IV was born Robert Francis Privost In the Illinois ChicagoIn the 5th. He is the first US Pope in the history of the Church and he is also a Peruvian citizen, where he worked for many years.
CBS News Report to Chicago He grew up in the southern suburbs and had two brothers. A woman who knew her in her childhood said that the Prevost family was very active in their church.
“His family was very, extremely religious Catholic. I would say this. Mom and father were both,” Linda told the porch station. “They never missed the church, and they were very active in our parish. His mother was like a member of the Bedi and Rosari Society. They were lecturers in their church – very active, very devout family.”
He graduated from Vilanova University of Pennsylvania With a degree in mathematics, he studied theology in the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, where he graduated with Diver Suburban.
When he was 2 27, he was sent to Rome to study and was appointed as a priest in 12. He went to Pontif’s Pontifical College in Rome to earn a doctorate in Canon Act.
“My experience in the Cardinal Privost was that he was not a showbot” “The United States of the United States told Provincial CSV, Father Mark and Francis, CBS News Chicago that a seminary classmate.” He is very quiet, but very intelligent and very sympathetic. “
What is the background of Pope Leo XIV in the church?
After his ordinance, the Prevent Missionary went to work as Peru. He returned to the United States for a few years and returned to Peru, where he used to run an Augustinian seminar in Truzilo.
The Vatican says he appointed the Apostolic administrator of Diaosis in Peru’s Chiklalo in Peru, Vatican. A year later, he became a bishop.
Pope Francis made him a cardinal in 2023.
Before the Pope, Privost, who was 693, was the head of the church for the bishops, which means he supervised the new bishop elections.
Overall, he is considered as a centralist, but in many social issues he is seen as progressive, hugging marginal parties like Francis, who champions immigrants and poor. However, Privost, for example, opposed women as a decon, so he sees as conservative on the church doctrine.
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Pope Leo XIV congratulated by President Trump, Chicago Mayor
President Trump The first US -born Pope posted a message on social media.
“Cardinal Robert Francis Privest congratulations to the Pope, who was just given the name of the Pope. He is the first American Pope. What a excitement, and what great honor for our country. I am looking forward to meeting Pope Leo IV. This would be a very meaningful moment!” He wrote.
Former President Barack Obama has also shared his greetings for “colleague Chicagoan”.
Obama writes, “Michelle and I congratulate us a colleague Chicagwan, his sanctity Pope Leo IV is this
In City of Privost, ChicagoMany people celebrate his election, Mayor Brandon Johnson tweeted: “Everything, including the Pope, comes from Dope Chicago!”
Johnson writes, “Congrats on the first American Pope Leo IV! We hope to welcome you back home soon.”
Why did Pope Leo XIV chose his name?
The first performance of the new pope after he was selected was to choose a new name. The Vatican says it should be understood that his pontif is similar to the second birth.
Cardinal Prevost Choose the name of Leo PayPalOne of the more popular preferences in history, which has been used by the previous 13 popes. Most recently, Pope Leo served from 1878 to 1903.
“The name Leo has returned to Pope Leo the Great,” CBS News PayPal contributed Candida Mos. Pope Leo is also known as the first, his sinful was from 440 to 461 and it included a famous meeting with Atila The Hun where Leo prevented him from attacking Rome.
“What does this mean for our new pope? Well, that may mean that he too is about to stand in favor of the oppressed political forces in the world,” Moss said.
He mentioned that Leo I was also known as “a great intellectual and theologian reformer”.
The name that a new pope chosen is often reflects the features that are expected to be embedded in their papes.
It will indicate “a specific attitude and direction and attitude of the new pope,” Dennis Doyle says Emeritus, theologian and professor of religious studies at Detton University.
For example, Pope Francis was the first pope of history that the name adopted by the name of St. Francis of Assci. In the Catholic Tradition, Asisi had a mysterious vision in St. Francis, who asked him to rebuild his church. He left his assets and founded the Franciskan Order of Freeers in 1290.
Nicole Brown Chow has contributed to this report.
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