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Honoring the election of Pope Leo XIV as the 267th Pope and celebrating his connections to the Philadelphia area.
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WHEREAS, Pope Leo XIV was born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago on September 14, 1955 to Mildred Anges Prevost and Louis Marius Prevost; and
WHEREAS, Raised in Dolton, Illinois, Prevost and his family joined the parish of St. Mary of the Assumption. Here Pope Leo XIV laid the foundation of his catholic faith while attending the church's school, singing in the choir, and serving as an altar boy; and
WHEREAS, Prevost then moved to the Philadelphia suburbs to attend Villanova University to study mathematics. During this period he frequently visited churches in the Philadelphia area, and also worked during the summer months at Saint Denis Parish in Havertown; and
WHEREAS, Following his graduation from Villanova in 1977, the future Pontiff returned to Chicago to receive his theological education at the Catholic Theological Union, which marked his entrance into the priesthood. Shortly thereafter, he was sent to Rome to study Canon Law at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, where he received both licentiate and doctoral degrees; and
WHEREAS, The future Pontiff then joined the Augustinian order and took part in a mission in Peru in 1985. While in Peru, Prevost led an Augustinian seminary in Trujillo, and taught canon law. Over the course of eleven years he served many roles in Trujillo including as a professor of Canon Law Patristics, and Moral Theology; and
WHEREAS, In the late 1990s, the future Pontiff returned to his hometown of Chicago after being elected as Provincial Prior of the Augustinian Province of "Mother of Good Counsel" in Chicago before subsequently being elected as Prior General of the General Chapter of the Order of Saint Augustine; and
WHEREAS, In October 2013, he returned to his Augustinian Province in Chicago, serving as director of formation at the Saint Augustine Convent; and
WHEREAS, The future ...
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