Peruvians celebrate election of Pope Leo XIV in a parish he helped to build

Bells rang out from Trujillo Cathedral in northern Peru on Thursday to announce the election of the new Pope.

Trujillo is a city the now Pope Leo XIV knows well. The then Father Robert Prevost spent decades living and working in Peru, including ten years in Trujillo as head of the Augustinian seminary.

Prevost, 69, first arrived in Peru in 1985, with the order of the Augustinian Fathers, and served in the prelature of Chulucanas in the…