“Not because of him, but because being an American, that just has not been the case,“ said Archbishop Nelson J. Perez.
Perez heard the news while returning from Rome, where he had traveled without attending the conclave that elected Prevost.
“I was like, ‘Wow, I just can’t believe it’.”
Perez knew Prevost personally from their time working together in Peru in the early 2000s, when there were moments where the two were “just talking informally.”
The new pontiff has both US and Peruvian nationality after spending more than 20 years in the Latin American country.
Born on September 14, 1955, in Chicago to parents of French, Italian and Spanish descent, Prevost attended a minor seminary of the Order of St Augustine in St Louis as a novice.
“While he was in college, he had a little side job as a groundskeeper for one of our parish cemeteries,“ the Philadelphia archbishop said, grinning.
Known as the cradle of democracy, Philadelphia is home to the signing of the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution.
The historic city can now add being the pope's university town to its accolades.
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