Cubao Vocation Ministry

Congratulations to our seminarians on their Moving-Up Ceremony and Senior High School Graduation! 🎓🙏

Nawa’y patuloy kayong gabayan ni Inang Lupe sa inyong bokasyon, at manatiling matatag sa pananampalataya at paglilingkod. 💙

𝐏𝐎𝐏𝐄 𝐋𝐄𝐎 𝐗𝐈𝐕

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, O.S.A., Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and Archbishop-Bishop Emeritus of Chiclayo, was born on 14 September 1955 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. In 1977, he entered the novitiate of the Order of Saint Augustine (O.S.A.) in the Province of Our Lady of Good Counsel, in Saint Louis. On 29 August 1981, he made his solemn vows. He studied at the Catholic Theological Union of Chicago, receiving a diploma in theology.

At the age of 27, he was sent by the Order to Rome to study canon law at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum). He was ordained a priest on 19 June 1982. He received his licentiate in 1984 and was then sent to work in the mission of Chulucanas, in Piura, Peru (1985–1986).

In 1987, he was awarded a doctorate with a thesis entitled The Role of the Local Prior in the Order of Saint Augustine. That same year, he was elected director of vocations and director of missions for the Augustinian Province of “Mother of Good Counsel” in Olympia Fields, Illinois. In 1988, he was sent to the mission of Trujillo as director of the joint formation project for Augustinian aspirants in the Vicariates of Chulucanas, Iquitos, and Apurímac. There, he served as community prior (1988–1992), director of formation (1988–1998), and teacher of the professed (1992–1998). In the Archdiocese of Trujillo, he served as judicial vicar (1989–1998) and as professor of canon law, patristics, and moral theology at the “San Carlos y San Marcelo” Major Seminary.

In 1999, he was elected provincial prior of the “Mother of Good Counsel” Province in Chicago. After two and a half years, the Ordinary General Chapter elected him Prior General, a ministry to which he was re-elected in the 2007 Ordinary General Chapter. In October 2013, he returned to his province in Chicago to serve as teacher of the professed and provincial vicar. He held these roles until 3 November 2014, when Pope Francis appointed him Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Chiclayo, Peru, elevating him to the dignity of bishop and assigning him the titular see of Sufar. On 7 November, he took canonical possession of the diocese in the presence of Apostolic Nuncio James Patrick Green. He was ordained a bishop on 12 December, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in the cathedral of the diocese.

He served as Bishop of Chiclayo from 26 November 2015. In March 2018, he became Second Vice President of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference. Pope Francis appointed him a member of the Congregation for the Clergy in 2019 and a member of the Congregation for Bishops in 2020. On 15 April 2020, the Pope appointed him Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Callao.

On 30 January 2023, Pope Francis appointed Cardinal Prevost as Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.

He was created and proclaimed Cardinal by Pope Francis in the Consistory of 30 September 2023, of the Deaconry of Santa Monica.

Member of:

- The Dicasteries for: Evangelization, Section for first evangelization and the new particular Churches; the Doctrine of the Faith; the Eastern Churches; the Clergy; the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life; Culture and Education; Legislative Texts;
- The Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State.

source: https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_prevost_rf.html