While Pope Leo XIV has deleted the account he began as Father Robert F. Prevost on Twitter, now X, in 2011, the Vatican has ...

praying at the tomb of Pope Francis and his audience with journalists on Monday. Leo is taking over the Instagram account begun by Pope Francis in 2016. According to the Vatican, the previous pope ...

The former Cardinal Robert Prevost has led some two dozen public events but not made notable appointments, nor announced ...

To date, over 10 million users follow “pontifex” on Instagram ... announced that any content posted by Francis before his death will be archived. Pope Leo was born in Chicago and gained ...

The @Pontifex accounts on X and Instagram have about 52 million followers, according to the Vatican. Content posted by Pope Francis on these accounts will be archived on the Vatican’s website.

and the official Instagram account, @Franciscus, was added in 2016. “Pope Francis’ presence on social media was significant. Around 50,000 posts were published across the @Pontifex and ...