Born in Chicago in 1955, Prevost has held Peruvian nationality since 2015, Peru’s national register agency confirmed Thursday. In 2014, he served as the administrator and later bishop of ...

As headlines in major U.S. publications on May 8 blared that the first pope from the U.S. had been elected, newspapers in Peru, where he is a citizen, begged to differ.

“I’ve lived in Chicago for many years. And that he is from both places makes me double proud,” Fernandez, 74, a retired doctor from northern Peru, said. Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, has a ...

Leo, 69, was chosen despite allegations that he mishandled clerical sexual abuse cases by priests in Chicago and Peru, accusations the Vatican denies. Pope Leo’s life begins in Chicago ...

The Chicago native became a Peruvian citizen in ... on Thursday said Leo’s election was a “historic moment” for Peru and the U.S. “He chose to be one of us, to live among us, and to ...

Proporcionada Share Peruvians in Chicago are celebrating the election of Pope Leo XIV, a Chicagoan who spent two decades of service in Peru, as the elevation of one of their own. “We have an ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago native who spent his career ministering in Peru, has been elected the new Pope, becoming the first American to be named pontiff in the Catholic Church’s 2,000 ...

The group alleged Prevost “harmed the vulnerable and caused scandal” by mishandling two situations – in Chicago in 2000, and in Peru in 2022 – involving priests accused of sexual abuse.

Peru, Chicago celebrate Pope Leo XIV Posted: May 9, 2025 | Last updated: May 9, 2025 Pope Leo XIV's followers in Peru are reacting to news of his election as many in Chicago, where the pope was ...

Pope Leo XIV, 69, was elected to take up the papal seat on Thursday, on the second day of the papal conclave’s deliberations. Born Robert Prevost on Sept. 14, 1955 in Chicago, Ill., he was a ...