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In an exclusive interview with LA NACION, the auxiliary bishop of La Plata, who has known Robert Prevost for more than 30 years, spoke about the Supreme Pontiff's career and his relationship with his predecessor.
“I went in and said, ‘Can I give you a hug?’ And now what do I call you, ‘Robert’ or ‘Leo’?’ And he replied: ‘That’s your problem.’” If there's anyone who knows Leo XIV, the first American pope, but also a Peruvian one, very well, it's the auxiliary bishop of La Plata, Alberto Bochatey, who was received in audience by his old friend this Tuesday in the library of the Apostolic Palace.
"It was a very fraternal, very nice, happy audience. We talked about ourselves, about the Church in Argentina, about general topics. It was very serene. And I saw him very much in papal mode, already fully in office," an emotional Bochatey told LA NACION.
An Augustinian like him, of the same age, 69, in a long interview with LA NACION, Bochatey told the story of that friendship that began more than 30 years ago in Rome, when the two lived together at the Agustinianum—the headquarters of the Order of Saint Augustine, just meters from the Vatican—while they were studying.
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“I went in and said, ‘Can I give you a hug?’ And now what do I call you, ‘Robert’ or ‘Leo’?’ And he replied: ‘That’s your problem.’” If there's anyone who knows Leo XIV, the first American pope, but also a Peruvian one, very well, it's the auxiliary bishop of La Plata, Alberto Bochatey, who was received in audience by his old friend this Tuesday in the library of the Apostolic Palace.
"It was a very fraternal, very nice, happy audience. We talked about ourselves, about the Church in Argentina, about general topics. It was very serene. And I saw him very much in papal mode, already fully in office," an emotional Bochatey told LA NACION.
An Augustinian like him, of the same age, 69, in a long interview with LA NACION, Bochatey told the story of that friendship that began more than 30 years ago in Rome, when the two lived together at the Agustinianum—the headquarters of the Order of Saint Augustine, just meters from the Vatican—while they were studying.
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