Archbishop Robert Francis Prevost, Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, is an American missionary of the Augustinian order who spent many years in Peru.
Francis has named Bishop Robert Francis Prevost, an American religious serving as a bishop in Peru, to succeed Cardinal Marc Ouellet as head of the Vatican-based bishops’ office
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Marc Ouellet as prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, and named an American-born prelate, Bishop Robert Prevost, to replace him.
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