Vatican creates an official account of Pope Leo XIV on Instagram

The Vatican reported that Pope Leo XIV has decided to “maintain an active presence on social networks through official papal accounts” in X @pontifex and Instagram, creating a new one for the last case.

In a statement, the dicas supplies for communications indicated that “as of today, Leo XIV collects the inheritance of X accounts @Pontest that Pope Francis used and, previously, Benedict XVI ”, while opening a new account on the Instagram social network.

“On Instagram, the new Pope’s account is called @Pontifex – Pope Leo XIVand it is the only official account of the Holy Father on this platform, in continuity with the account of Pope Francis, @Franciscus”, Said the Dicaster.

The Vatican agency reported that the contents published by Pope Francis on the X network “will be filed soon in the corresponding section of the Institutional Website of the Holy See, Vatican.va”.

While “The contents published in the @Franciscus account will continue to be accessible as a commemorative file To the memory”.

The Vatican recalled that “the presence of potatoes on social networks began on December 12, 2012, when Pope Benedict XVI launched the @Pontifex account on the then Twitter.”

This account, which is published in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Polish, Arabic and Latin, adds “in total 52 million followers”.

The Dicastery highlighted the activity he had in Pope Francis on social networks, with “a total of about 50,000 posts, published in the nine @pontifex accounts and @franciscus”.

“In this way, he has accompanied us almost every day of his pontificate with brief messages of an evangelical nature or with exhortations in favor of peace, social justice and the care of creation; and has reached a great interaction, especially in difficult times (in 2020, year of exceptional data because of the pandemic, his messages were seen 27,000 million times),” he said.