Leo XIV

The election of Leo XIV genuinely moved me, and not only because an American pope was long considered impossible. Robert Prevost's biography reads like a deliberate bridge: born in Chicago, formed by the Augustinian order, and seasoned by years of pastoral work in Peru, he holds both citizenships and, I suspect, both sensibilities. That a future pope once ran an ordinary account on X makes him feel strikingly approachable. His choice of the name Leo, echoing the pope who championed workers' rights, hints at where his pontificate may lean. I will be watching how this quiet, methodical man handles a very loud world.

Name (English)

Leo XIV

Name (Japanese)

レオ14世

Reading

れお14世

Born

September 14, 1955 (age 70)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Goat

Origin

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Occupation

Catholic priest / Catholic bishop / friar / archbishop / regular priest

High school

St. Augustine Seminary High School

University

Villanova University

Awards & achievements

• Supreme Order of Christ
• Order of the Golden Spur
• Order of Pius IX
• Order of St. Gregory the Great
• Order of St. Sylvester
• Sovereign Military Order of Malta
• Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre
• Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en.html
• Xhttps://x.com/drprevost
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AA14%E4%B8%96%20(%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E6%95%99%E7%9A%87)

Tags

• Illinois
• Catholic priest
• Catholic bishop
• friar

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.