Pope Leo XIV arrived today in Peru, the third and last stop of his journey through Latin America, which marks the return of the pontiff to his adopted country, where he lived more than twenty years that influenced his pastoral work.
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11/11/2026
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O Pope Leo XIV arrived today in Peru, the third and last stop of his journey through Latin America, which marks the return of the pontiff to his adopted country, where he lived more than twenty years that influenced his pastoral work.
In that country, Robert Prevost began as a missionary and became a bishop there, having nationalized Peruvian.
After visiting Uruguay and Argentina, Leo XIV will have in Peru the longest stage of this South American tour, with a total of six days in which he will visit the cities of Lima, Cusco, Pucallpa and Chiclayo, where he will travel several places of his former diocese, in which he was bishop for eight years (2015-2023).
The plane from Buenos Aires with the Holy Father on board landed at 17:00 (22:00 GMT) on the runway of the international airport Jorge Chávez, which serves Lima and is located in the port province of Callao, adjacent to the Peruvian capital.
On the plane's flight down the stairs, the Pope was welcomed by Peru's president, Keiko Fujimori, and his foreign minister, Carlos Espá, who welcomed the pontiff on his return to the country.
There, León XIV received a bouquet of flowers from a couple of children, while the Symphony children's choir for El Perú, the Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez's project that gives musical education to underage children, sang a song.
The Pope also briefly left the red carpet that he traveled with Fujimori to greet a group of minor orphans living in state shelters, and then continued the protocol greetings to Peruvian bishops.
From the airport, the Holy Father went to the historic centre of Lima to meet at the Government Palace with the Peruvian President and to have a brief audience with his ministerial office.
On the route you will take a short route in the ‘Papamóvel’ through some streets of the old center of Lima before reaching the main square of the Peruvian capital, where the Government Palace is located.
After his meeting with Fujimori, the pontiff will go to the Grand National Theatre in Lima, where he will greet the other State authorities and the diplomatic corps accredited in Peru and will deliver his first speech from his visit to the Andean country.
The Pope's stay in Peru extends until Monday, with an agenda full of activities in which, now as a lyn
Since Robert Prevost, born in Chicago (United States), he was appointed Pope and addressed some affectionate words in Spanish, from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, which Peruvians longed for his return to the country to show him all their affection.
Leo XIV's first trip to Latin America began on November 6th and ends on November 16, only three weeks after having been operated on a lung cancer in Rome, in an intervention where the lower lobe of the right lung was removed.