Pope Leo XIV today began the fourth day of his visit to Peru with a ceremony in the cathedral where he served as bishop for eight years in the city of Chiclayo.
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14/11/2026
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O Pope Leo XIV began today the fourth day of his visit to Peru with a ceremony in the cathedral where he served as bishop for eight years in the city of Chiclayo.
The square outside the cathedral was filled with about 15,000 people since dawn who wanted to welcome Robert Prevost's return to his old diocese, as part of his first trip to Latin America as Pope.
Leo XIV left Chiclayo in 2023 to go to the Vatican at the invitation of Pope Francis, where he directed the Dicastery to the Bishops, not knowing that two years later he would become the leader of the Catholic Church.
On its second and final day in Chiclayo, a city on the northern coast of Peru, about 700 kilometres from the capital, Lima, Pope Leo XIV presided over the coronation of the Immaculate Virgin, a ceremony in which a crown is placed on the religious image to recognize her as queen.
This was the first point of Pope Leo XIV's programme for today, which will proceed to the rural province of Santa Cruz, in the region of Cajamarca, to visit one of the most remote areas of its ancient diocese.
Leo XIV is in Peru until Monday, the last stop of his first trip to Latin America, after being in Uruguay and Argentina, being the longest stage, with a total of six days to visit the cities of Lima, Cusco, Pucallpa and Chiclayo.