Peru's president, Dina Boluarte, described Pope Leo as Peruvian "by choice and conviction". "The pope is Peruvian; God loves ...

LIMA (Reuters) - In the Peruvian coastal city of Chiclayo, some 5,000 kilometers (3,000 miles) from new Pope Leo XIV's ...

Between 2015 and 2023, then-Bishop Robert F. Prevost shepherded the Diocese of Chiclayo through some of its most difficult ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected Thursday by the conclave to serve as pope, becoming Pope Leo XIV at the age of 69. Prevost, a missionary who dedicated his career to ministry in Peru ...

Smiling, he continued: "A greeting to all and in particular to my dear Diocese of Chiclayo, in Peru ... their own to the highest position in the Catholic Church. Standing near Lima's cathedral ...

Peruvians were elated Thursday after a Catholic cardinal who spent years guiding the faithful in the South American country ...

The new head of the global Roman Catholic Church was born in Chicago, but spent decades in Peru. He first arrived in 1985 as a young missionary in the mostly impoverished north, spending many of his f ...

“The cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church elected Robert Francis Prevost as their 267th pontiff on Thursday, ending a ...

Before ascending to lead the Roman Catholic Church ... Leo was appointed apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Chiclayo, in the country’s northwest on Nov. 3, 2014. Francis appointed ...

Lucia of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse released ... as a pastor and Bishop in the Diocese of Chiclayo in Peru, South America, and as the Prior General of the Augustinians (the Canons ...

They pray that God will bless him abundantly in his future ministry as the supreme pastor of the Roman Catholic Church,” the diocese said ... the bishop of Chiclayo in Peru in 2015, before ...