LIMA: Pope Leo XIV’s handwritten application for Peruvian citizenship has been declared part of the country’s national cultural heritage as the US-born pontiff visits a country he considers his second home, reported German Press Agency (dpa).
Peru’s Culture Ministry announced the decision as millions of people took to the streets of the capital, Lima, to welcome the pope following his arrival on Wednesday evening.
In 2015, Robert Francis Prevost, an Augustinian priest from Chicago, applied for Peruvian citizenship to become bishop of Chiclayo, a major city in northern Peru.
He had previously spent more than a decade working as a missionary in the South American country.
