
Janinna Sesa (left) and Robert Prevost pose for a photograph in Rome in 2023.
Janinna Sesa
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Janinna Sesa
Shortly after stepping onto the balcony overlooking St. Peter’s Sq., the brand new pope, Leo XIV, took a second to thank town the place he served as bishop for practically a decade.
“To all of you however particularly to my beloved diocese of Chiclayo in Peru,” he mentioned in Spanish. “The place a devoted folks have accompanied its bishop, shared its religion and given a lot to proceed being a church which is devoted to Jesus Christ.”
Janinna Sesa says town erupted in celebration when it heard its identify on the world’s stage. Sesa is the previous Chiclayo director of Caritas, the Catholic Church’s worldwide humanitarian assist group.