Edgard Iván Rimaycuna Inga (born 24 September 1989) is a Peruvian Catholic priest and the current private secretary to Pope Leo XIV.
Edgard Rimaycuna | |
|---|---|
| Private Secretary to the Pope | |
.jpg) Fr Rimaycuna in 2025 | |
| Church | Catholic Church |
| Diocese | Rome |
| See | Holy See |
| Appointed | 8 May 2025 |
| Predecessor | Juan Cruz Villalón |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 22 November 2014 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Edgard Iván Rimaycuna Inga 24 September 1989 Chiclayo, Lambayeque, Peru |
| Denomination | Catholicism |
| Alma mater | Pontifical Biblical Institute (SSL) |
Biography
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Rimaycuna Inga was born on 24 September 1989 in Chiclayo, Peru.[1] He grew up in the La Victoria district of Chiclayo.[2] From 2001, he attended a high school in his hometown (Colegio Nacional San José de Chiclayo). After graduating, he studied philosophy and theology at the Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo seminary in Chiclayo from 2006 to 2013.[3]
During a study visit to Rome in 2006, he first met "Padre Roberto", the Rome-based Prior General of the Augustinian Order (and former Prior of the Peruvian province of the Order), Robert Francis Prevost, the later pope. From 2013 to 2015, Rimaycuna Inga was parochial vicar of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Chiclayo.[4] When Prevost was bishop of the Diocese of Chiclayo from 2015 to 2023, he appointed Rimaycuna Inga as parochial vicar at St. Mary's Cathedral, Chiclayo. In September 2017, he began his studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. After graduating a Licentiate in Scripture in 2021,[5][6] Rimaycuna Inga went to Manesseno, a district of Sant’Olcese in Liguria, Italy, as parish vicar. [7]
After Prevost moved back to Rome in 2023, as a cardinal of the Roman Curia, he appointed Rimaycuna Inga as his secretary in the Dicastery for Bishops in 2024. Following Prevost's election as Pope Leo XIV on 8 May 2025, Rimaycuna Inga became papal private secretary on 11 May 2025.[8] Papal private secretaries hold a position that is subordinate in protocol, but in practice often quite influential. In December 2025, Rimaycuna Inga was made Chaplain of His Holiness, and therefore granted the title Monsignor, as an expression of his work with the Pope Leo.[5]
References
edit- ↑ "Leo XIV grants his personal secretary the title of Chaplain of His Holiness". Silere Non Possum. 2025-11-25. Retrieved 2025-12-15.
- ↑ Gobierno Regional de Lambayeque rinde homenaje Al Rvdo. Edgard Iván Rimaycuna Inga por su designación Como Secretario del Papa León XIV, diariogrupopanorama.com, 19 August 2025
- ↑ José Cayetano Chávez: Conoce a Edgard Rimaycuna, el “alumno brillante” de Chiclayo que hoy es el secretario del Papa León XIV. In: El Comercio, 19 May 2025
- ↑ Esparza, Daniel (2025-05-17). "Who is Fr. Edgar Rimaycuna, Pope Leo XIV's trusted aide?". Aleteia.
- 1 2 "Why the Pope's secretary has been made a Monsignor". The Catholic Herald. 2025-11-28.
- ↑ "ACADEMIC DEGREES AWARDED IN 2020-21". Pontifical Biblical Institute.
- ↑ Edgard Iván Rimaycuna Inga, chi è l’uomo-ombra di Prevost dal Perù a Roma: sarà segretario particolare di Papa Leone XIV, 10 May 2025
- ↑ ¡Perú es clave! Secretario del papa León XIV será un joven de Chiclayo, peru21.pe, May 11, 2025