Pope Leo XIV updated his personal data for his new National Identity Document (DNI) of Peru on Friday, according to the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status (RENIEC).
According to an agency’s note AndinaOfficial Medium of the Peruvian State, Pope León received four registrars of the RENIEC this morning, in a meeting that was not on the list of audiences released by the Holy See Press Office.
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In the previous ID, Robert Prevost Martínez, the current Pope Leo XIV, appeared with a direction of Chiclayo, city of northern Peru where he was bishop. The new DNI will have the new direction of the Vatican and an updated photograph of the Holy Father, taken today by the registrars.
With this procedure Reniec concluded the “Identification Without Borders” campaign that has allowed the sending of registrars to Rome and Milan (Italy), to update the DNIS of Peruvians in the European country.
In 2015, the then Bishop of Chiclayo acquired Peruvian nationality and obtained its first ID. In 2016 he obtained the electronic ID (with chip), which does not require renewal for his age, 69 years.
With this update, Pope Leo XIV will have the so -called Electronic DNI 3.0 that the Government of Peru launched on April 15, 2025 and has a cost of 41 soles, just over 10 dollars.
“The Electronic DNI 3.0 now has 64 safety elements both on the 100% heat -resistant polycarbonate card and ultraviolet rays, as well as in the cryptographic chip. That is, four times more than 2.0,” the website of the Peruvian State.
The electronic ID will allow digital vote in the next elections; And it also serves to access Distance Digital Services and also for Commerce on line.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.