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Eze Igbo Ghana congratulates the new Pope, Robert Francis Prevost, Pope Leo XIV
The Eze Ndigbo Ghana, HRM Eze, Dr Chukwudi Jude Ihenetu, has joined other world leaders to congratulate the new Catholic Pontif, Robert Francis Prevost who goes by the title
Pope Leo XIV.
The new Pope, Robert Prevost, 69, is the first American pontiff to be elected leader of the over 1.4 billion Catholic Church members worldwide.
The Chicago-born Prevost is seen as a reformer and worked for many years as a missionary in Peru before attainment of his new statues.
In a statement issued from the revered Obi-Ukwu Obieziokwu palace in Ghana, HRM Ihenetu said:
“On behalf of elders in Obieziokwu palace and Ndigbo in Ghana, I
rejoice with the new Pope and pray that God Almighty will give him the grace to supretend over the Catholic family.
“At this time, when the world is in turmoil, when poverty and war is plaguing many countries, I pray that the Pope would have the grace and the courage to continue from where Pope Francis stopped by becoming friend of the poor and the less privileged. and not to support gayism, ” he prayed.
