Pope Leo Takes Peru Tour Into the Andes
The first US-born pope celebrates Mass in a rural Andes village and closes a Jubilee prayer meeting honoring Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo.
- On Saturday, November 14, 2026, Pope Leo XIV travels to the Andes to celebrate Mass at the rural village of Santa Cruz de Succhabamba, moving his Peru tour from the coast into the highlands.
- Previously, Pope Francis named Leo apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Chiclayo on November 3, 2014, and he became bishop on September 26, 2015.
- Joining a prayer meeting at the shrine of Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo, the US-born pontiff honors 300 years since the 16th-century archbishop of Lima was canonised during the Jubilee Year.
- He urged the faithful to "overflow" their rural settlements with the Gospel, saying "All Christians, ordained ministers and lay faithful, are missionary disciples."
- The tour concludes Monday, November 16, 2026, with a final Mass at Las Palmas air base in Lima, followed by a farewell ceremony before his plane departs for Rome at 13:45.
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Pope Leo visits remote Andes town on special stop of Peru tour
SANTA CRUZ DE SUCCHABAMBA, Peru, Nov 14 - Pope Leo travelled on Saturday to Peru's western Andean mountains on a special stop on his 12-day South America tour to visit a remote town of under 6,000 inhabitants who once knew him as the bishop of Chiclayo, the big city that's a four-hour drive away. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Lima, 14 Nov (EFE).- Pope Leon XIV went into the Peruvian Andes this Saturday by helicopter to reach the Andean and rural province of Santa Cruz, the most remote place in the Diocese of Chiclayo, where he was bishop for eight years (2015-2023) and to which he had promised to return when he left for the Vatican [...] The entry León XIV travels in ‘pacopter’ to the furthest area of his former diocese, in Peruvian Andes was first published in HolaN…
Leo XIV slept in Chiclayo in the same place that he did as bishop. This Saturday he will travel to Santa Cruz de Succhabamba, in the region of Cajamarca, to give a mass.
This Saturday Pope Leo XIV visits other places in Peru, which he knows from his time as a religious and bishop of Chiclayo. First he celebrates in ...
Pope Leo XIV celebrates his second and final day of activities in Chiclayo and northern Peru on Saturday, November 14. His agenda includes a prayer meeting in Zaña for the 300 years of the canonization of Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo. He continues here the latest news, schedules, images and details of his journey.
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