A few days ago, the world recognized the name of the successor of the deceased Pope Francis († 88). He elected a conclave of American Cardinal Robert Premost as a new head of the Church. The Internet immediately began to spread information about the past of the new Pope, which received the name of Leo XIV, but also various archive photos.
The Slovaks were particularly impressed by the shot, in which he serves his hand with Pope John Paul II, who died in 2005. Many commentators are reminiscent of the young Lion XIV. Partner of the legendary Slovak actress Zdena Studenková.
The conductor Braňo Kostka is connected by an incredible form. This photo is found in the gallery. “Looks like Zdenkin Branko,“Fan Maria noticed right now.
Leo XIV. He is the first American to sit on Petr’s Stolec. Its election is generally perceived as a compromise and a symbol of unity because it connects origin in the US, mission and bishop’s work in South America and also experience from the Roman Curia.
The Pope was born on September 14, 1955 in Chicago. He completed secondary education in the seminar of the Order of St. Augustine in 1973. He then won a bachelor’s degree from mathematics at the Villan University in Villanov in Pennsylvania.
In 1977 he joined the Augustinian Order and made his first promises in September 1978 and the solemn promises in August 1981. The following year the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago awarded him the title Master of Divinity and in 1982 reached the title of Magister theology at the Catholic postgraduate school in Chicago. He received the priestly consecration on July 19, 1982 in Rome and five years later he received a doctorate from the canon law to the Papal College of Sts. Tomáš Aquinas in Rome.
In 1985 he joined the Augustinian mission in Peru and 1985 to 1986 he worked as the Chancellor of the Territorial Prelative Chulucanas. He returned to Peru in 1988 and led the Augustinian seminar in Trujilla for the next ten years. He also taught canonical law in the diocesan seminar and acted as a prefect of studies. He worked as a judge of the Regional Church Court and a member of the College of Advisers in Trujilla. He was elected by the provincial of the Augustinian province in Chicago in the eye of 1998 and took over this post after returning to the United States on 8 March 1999.
Pope Francis appointed Premosta on November 3, 2014 as the apostolic administrator of the Peruvian diocese of Chiclayo and the titular bishop Sufar, while the bishop’s holy received on December 12 of the same year. He became a diocesan bishop on September 26, 2015. In 2020-2021 he was also an administrator of the Peruvian Diocese of Callao.
Since January 2023, he has been a prefect of the influential dicaster for bishops responsible for the selection of candidates for the episcopal authorities. In September of the same year, Pope Francis appointed him a cardinal.
In church circles, the new Pope is considered a moderate reformer and a pragmatic diplomat with the ability to listenshe recalled DPA in connection with its election. His views are very close to Pope Francis, his vision in terms of the environment, helping the poor and migrants and meeting people when he says that “the bishop should not be a small prince sitting in his kingdom”.
