The Augustinian cardinal and former missionary in Peru has been elected the new pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Singapore and congregants ... Pope Leo XIV served as a bishop in Chiclayo in northwest Peru from 2015 to 2023 and was granted Peruvian citizenship in 2015.

Pope Leo spoke to a crowd of 150,000 in Saint Peter's Square for the first time, recalling his time as a missionary and later as archbishop of Chiclayo, Peru. Bishop James Ruggieri of the Roman ...

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 ...