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Who is Leo 14?

Born on September 14, 1955, in Chicago, he is son Louis Marius Prevost, of French and Italian descent, and Mildred Martinez of Spanish ancestry. He has two brothers, Louis Martín and John Joseph.

He studied at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, graduating in theology. At 27, he was sent by his superiors to Rome to study Canon Law at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas. In the city, he was ordained a priest on June 19, 1982, at the Agostinian College of Santa Monica, by Dom Jean Jadot, pro-president of the pontifical counsel for non-Christians, today dicker for interreligious dialogue.

In addition to being American, he is also Peruvian, as he obtained this citizenship in 2015. The cardinal arrived in Peru as a young Augustinian missionary and, from the Andean country, departed as a bishop for the Vatican, to become a central figure in the administration of Pope Francis.

Prevost spent a third of his life in the United States. The rest between Europe and Latin America, one of the peripheries of the world, from which the Argentine Jorge Mario Bergoglio was also natural.

Archbishop Emeritus of Chiclayo, about 750 kilometers north of Lima, Prevost left Peru to join the Vatican government. There he headed the dicker for the bishops, who has the important function of advising the Pope on the appointment of church leaders.