Pope Leo XIV received a delegation of bishops in Bolivia on Saturday, who invited him to visit the South American country “in the near future.”
“The Holy Father has received a group of bishops from Bolivia this morning,” said the press office of the Vatican Without giving further details, as usual in this type of meetings.
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He place Web of the Bolivian Episcopal Conference (CEB) reported that the bishops were headed by the president of the institution, Mons. Aurelio Weight Ribera, and at the audience “they transmitted the greeting of the Bolivian Church and extended a cordial invitation so that the Pope can visit Bolivia in the near future”.
At the meeting, he points out the CEB note “the prelates were able to share their pastoral concerns and strengthen ties with the pontiff, in a meeting marked by fraternity and the commitment to advance in the evangelizing mission of the Church in Bolivia.”
The last pontiff visited Bolivia was Pope Francis, who visited the Altiplano country from July 8 to 10, 2015.
Tonight the bishops will celebrate Mass at the Church of the Sacred Heart with members of the Bolivian community in Rome, and then travel to Germany where they will visit the dioceses of Tréveris and Hildesheim to “strengthen cooperation and exchange” with them.
In addition to Mons. Pesoa, they were present at the hearing with Pope León Mons. Juan Carlos Huaygua, President of the Economic Commission; Mons. Eugenio Coter, Bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Pando; Mons. Pascual Limachi, Bishop of the Prelature of Corocoro; Mons. Jorge Herbas, Bishop of the Prelature of Aiquile; and Mons. Edmundo Abastoflor, archbishop emeritus of peace.
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.