Prelate shares memories of future Pope’s ministry in Peru
May 12, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Bishop Giovanni Paccosi of San Miniato, Italy, recalled his two years of ministry in the Diocese of Chiclayo, Peru, when the future Pope Leo was bishop.
Paccosi, then the priest who oversaw the Communion and Liberation movement in Chicayo from 2014 to 2016, recalled that as Chiclayo swelled in population, Bishop Robert Prevost addressed poverty and other social problems and had a “missionary, dialoguing and welcoming ecclesial vision.”
“I was always amazed by the fact that he took seminarians to visit prisons, to do missions in the poorest areas of the diocese,” Bishop Paccosi continued. “He has always valued movements, religious congregations, new communities. He has always supported a united Church but, as Pope Francis said, with the features of a polyhedron.”
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