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Robert Prévost
Robert Prevost (born 1955) is the birth name of Pope Leo XIV, head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City State since 2025. Robert Prevost or Prévost may also refer to: * Robert Prévost (set designer) (1927–1982), Canadian set designer * Robert Prévost (historian) (1918–2007), Canadian historian, writer and journalist from Quebec * Robert Prévost (painter) Robert Prévost (2 July 1893 – 17 August 1967) was a French painter from Avallon. He spent most of his life in Avallon, a town which he depicted in numerous watercolors. He is well-known in Avallon for his representations of the town and its s ... (1893–1967), French painter * Robert W. Prevost, American philosopher {{hndis, Prevost, Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Prevost
Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost, September 14, 1955) has been head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State since May 2025. He is the first pope to have been born in the United States and North America, the first to hold American and Peruvian citizenship, the first from the Order of Saint Augustine, and the second from the Americas (after his predecessor Francis). Prevost was born in Chicago and raised in the nearby suburb of Dolton, Illinois. He became a friar of the Order of Saint Augustine in 1977 and was ordained as a priest in 1982. His service includes extensive missionary work in Peru in the 1980s and 1990s, where he worked as a parish pastor, diocesan official, seminary teacher, and administrator. Elected prior general of the Order of Saint Augustine, he was based in Rome from 2001 to 2013, and extensively traveled to the order's provinces around the world. He then returned to Peru as Bishop of Chiclayo from 2015 to 2023. In 2023, Pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Prévost (set Designer)
Robert Prévost (March 21, 1927 – July 5, 1982) was a Canadian set designer. Born in 1927 in the Rosemont district of Montreal, Prévost completed his classical studies at the Collège Sainte-Croix , on Sherbrooke Street in Montreal. At the beginning of his career, he became a member of the Compagnons de Saint-Laurent, a theatre troupe created and directed by Father Émile Legault. There, he met great figures of Montreal theatre, including Jean-Louis Roux, Jean Gascon, and Georges Groulx. He joined the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde in 1953 for which he created more than 75 sets: Tartuffe, Dom Juan, Le Maître de Santiago and especially Le Malade imaginaire which was acclaimed in America and Europe. He designed sets for Canada's major stage productions, including the Stratford Festival, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. In 1972, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada The Order of Canada () is a Canadian state order, national order and the sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Prévost (historian)
Robert Prévost (1918–2007) was a Canadian journalist, historian, and author from Quebec. Biography Robert Prévost had three careers, as a journalist, civil servant, and historian. His preferred activities over more than sixty years were historical research and, especially through writing, popularizing historical facts, notably to stimulate pride among Quebecers regarding their origins. A journalist and columnist in Montreal for '' Le Petit Journal'' and ''La Presse'' for 17 years, then a civil servant for 32 years, particularly in France, Robert Prévost dedicated his life to promoting Quebec. As director of the Provincial Advertising Office, later renamed the Quebec Tourist Office, and subsequently Assistant Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Tourism, Hunting, and Fishing, he significantly contributed to the growth of Quebec tourism abroad. Notably, as the former Commissioner General for Quebec Tourism in Paris, he received the insignia of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Prévost (painter)
Robert Prévost (2 July 1893 – 17 August 1967) was a French painter from Avallon. He spent most of his life in Avallon, a town which he depicted in numerous watercolors. He is well-known in Avallon for his representations of the town and its surroundings. In addition to his watercolors, he authored a work about Avallon that remains a reference to this day: Avallon en 1900. This book was first published in 1958, and was reissued in 1978 with nine previously unpublished chapters. Biography Paul Marie Robert Prévost was the son of Suzanne Marthe Bailly (1872–1961) and Henri François Prévost (1863–1934). His father was an architect and was a member of the Avallon Studies Society (Société d'études d'Avallon) from 1904 to 1919. His father was also a watercolorist, as was his aunt, Marie Prévost. He was a member of the Avallon Studies Society, where his name first appeared in 1932. He wrote several articles for the Society up until the 1960s. He contributed as an illus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
