Robert Francis Brevost, the biography of the new Pope

First Agustino Pope, it is the second American Pontiff, after Francisco, but unlike Bergolio, The American Robert Francis Prevostand 69 years old, he is originally from the north of the continent. In fact, the new Bishop of Rome was born on September 14, 1955 in Chicago (Illinois), son of Luis Marius Pervost, of French and Italian origin, and Lyredide Martinez, of Spanish origin. He has two brothers, Luis Martin and John Joseph.

His childhood and adolescence passes with his family and studies first in the high school for parents, Augustine, then at the University of Villanova, Pennsylvania, where he graduates in the philosophy of mathematics and studies in 1977.

He receives his training in the Catholic theological Union in Chicago, licensed in theology. At the age of twenty -seven, he is sent by Rome to study the ecclesiastical law at the University of Santo Thomas de Akino Pap for (Angelikom). In the city, a priest was requested on June 19, 1982 at the Agustiniano School in Santa Monica by Monsignor Jean -Jadot, a supporter of the Chairman in the Pontifical Council of non -Christians, today Dicastery for religions.

Prevost was awarded in 1984 and the following year, while preparing a doctoral thesis, it is sent to the Augustinian Chulucanas mission, Piura, Peru (1985-1986). In 1987, when his doctoral thesis was discussed about “the previous local role before the command of San Agoustin”, and the director of professions and director of missions in Augustine province was appointed by the mother of good advice “in Olympia Fields, Illinois (USA).

The following year, joined the Trujillo mission, also in Peru, as director of the joint training project for candidates for Oguminists at Vicariates of Chulucanas, IQUITOS and Apurímac.

In the eleventh general area, he plays previous positions for Prior (1988-1992), Training Director (1988-1998) and professor of professors (1992-1998), and in the diocese of Trujillo, from the Judicial Deputy (1989-1998), professor of Canon, Patristist, and Patristist in San Carlos and San. At the same time, the pastoral care of the mother of the church was confused, and then the diocese with the title of Santa Rita (1988-1999), in the poor ocean of the city, and was the director of the diocese of the lady of Munrat from 1992 to 1999.

In 1999, he was elected in the province before the province, Augustine, “The Mother of the Good Council” of Chicago, and two and a half years later, in the normal chapter of the San Agostin Medal, his brothers chose a former general, confirming him in 2007 for another mandate.

In October 2013, he returned to Augustine County, in Chicago, and was a training director of the Saint Agostin Monastery, the first consultant in the province and Vicar; He accused his charges until Pope Francis appointed him, on November 3, 2014, the Apostolic Officer of the Peruvian diocese in Chicio, and raised him to the dignity of the Episcopal as the bishop of Sofar. On November 7, the diocese, in the presence of Nunio James Patrick Green Apostle, who orders him a little more than a month later, on December 12, is the Eid Guadalobi, at Santa Maria Cathedral.

His episcopal slogan is “in Illo One Unum”, and the words highlighted by Saint Augustine in a sermon, exhibition on Psalm 127, to explain that “although many Christians, in the only Christ, we are one.”

On September 26, 2015, he was appointed Bishop of Chicoli by the Argentine ink, and in March 2018, he was elected vice president of the Episcopal Conference in Peru, who is also a member of the Economic Council and Chairman of the Culture Committee.

In 2019 by Francisco, it is calculated among members of the clergy group on July 13, 2019 and the following year, among the Bishops Group (November 21).

Meanwhile, on April 15, 2020, the papal appointment was also as a messenger official for Peruvian Callao.

On January 30, 2023, the Pope invites him to Rome as a governor of Dicastery of the Bishops and Chairman of the Pontifical Committee of Latin America, and promoted to the head of the bishops. In the consistency of September 30 of the same year, he created it and appointed the Cardinal, where he appointed Santa Monica. Prevost acquired January 28, 2024, and at the head of Dicastery, he participated in the latest Apostolic trips of Pope Francis and in the first and second sessions of the sixteenth ordinary general assembly from 27 to 27, 2024, respectively, respectively in Chinese genes. AGUSTINOS and General Union representative (UGS).

Meanwhile, on October 4, 2023, Francisco is calculated among the Dicasteries for evangelization, the first preaching department and the new churches; For the faith of faith. For the eastern churches of the clergy for the institutes of devoted life and the societies of the Apostolic Life; For culture and education; For legislative texts; From the papal committee of the Vatican city.

Finally, on February 6 this year, he was promoted to the Archbishop Medal by the Argentine Pontiff, and won the title of the suburban church in Albano.

During the last entry to his predecessor’s Hospital in “Gemelli” multiple calamity, Prevost headed the Francisco health on March 3 in Plaza de San Pedro.