Blazon of Arms:
Shield: Parted per bend sinister: first Azure a fleur-de-lis Argent; second Argent in base a closed book leather bound lying flat proper and issuant from it a heart enflamed and pierced bend-sinisterwise by an arrow point down all Gules.
SOURCE, NOTES and CREDITS: Arms for background information and text based on the Wikipedia article and other sources. The blazon was written by John H. Gaylor for which we thank him. The Pope’s shield of arms are the same he used as a cardinal.
Pope Leo XIV born Robert Francis Prevost on September 14, 1955) is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. He was elected pope in the 2025 conclave on May 8 following the death and funeral of Pope Francis.
Born in Chicago, Prevost became a friar of the Order of Saint Augustine in 1977 and was ordained a priest in 1982. A citizen of the United States by birth and Peru by naturalization.
For more details, see his entry under his shield ( his arms simplicitor )
The artwork is an interpretation of John Hamilton Gaylor.
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