The unknown photos of Pope Leo XIV in Colombia when Bogotá, Barranquilla and other cities visited

last Thursday, May 8, the new Pope was chosen after a conclave that lasted only two days in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. Francisco’s successor is Robert Prevost, who will now be called Leo XIV.

Prevost is a Pope who will not be alien to Latin America. By birth, he is American, but he also has Peruvian nationality. In that country, he developed his mission since 1985 and, 29 years later, Pope Francis appointed him administrator of the Diocese of Chiclayo. A year later he would consecrate himself as bishop.

The times the new Pope was in Colombia

In the midst of his mission as the father of the Augustinian order, Prevost was appointed as a prior general, the highest position in this orphanization. Therefore, he had to visit several countries in the region, including Colombia.

To our country came several times exercising that position, he stayed in the convents of Medellín, Barranquilla, Bojacá, Chía and Bogotá, among other places that he would have visited at that time. Here he visited religious communities and participated in the order meetings.

Of those visits there are some images that left the registration of the passage of the new Pope through Bogotá and Barranquilla. In the capital of the country, he stayed in the Santo Tomás convent, where he was received by all the parents who were part of this order.

A photo of the then prior at the Cervantes High school shows his visit. In the image he appears next to a group of priests, smiling, under the gaze of a figure of the Virgin Mary.

At that time, Father William Josué Carreño Mora, as he told El Tiempo, took a walk through places like the park of the 93, 3L Museum of Gold and Monserrate, a gesture that was grateful for the today’s great pontiff of the Catholic Church. “I had the position of prior general, but he was an absolutely simple, kind, quiet person. He does not like so much protocol. He is a very close and friendly person,” Carreño said.

But there is another city where there was also its registration of visit to the Agustinian community of the country. In Barranquila he visited the houses of the Order and shared with all the people who formed it. In addition, it was in the San Nicolás parish and the Liceo de Cervantes school.

During the passage through the Colombian Caribbean, an image immortalized his visit. In a role of the order, a photo of yours remains next to the text: “Our reference is Christ, path, truth and life; past, present and future of history, which we must announce with language and with the first leg so that the good news of the Gospel arouses interest and much love.”

In addition to Colombia, thanks to its passage through Peru and the affection that it has to that country, the Pope would be very interested in the Latin American context. Some analysts mention that Leo XIV would continue with the line that had been imposed since the arrival of Fransico, the first American Pope in history and that he tried to include many historically left populations in the Catholic Church.

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