Pope Léon XIV inherited the story X of his predecessors, Benoît XVI and François, and opened another on Instagram, such as the Argentine Pope, announced the Vatican on Tuesday. Robert Prevost was before his choice, a regular Twitter user who has become X, not doubting to publish his political positions in the @Drprevot account.
Now it can be expressed in the @Pontifex account in X, used by its two predecessors, publish in nine languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Polish, Arabic and Latin) and reaching a total of 52 million subscribers, according to the Vatican.
“Keep an active presence on social networks”
On Instagram, he opened an account similar to François but taking his name, @pontifex – Pope Leo XIV. “The Holy Father Léón XIV has chosen to maintain an active presence on social networks through official papal accounts in X and Instagram,” said the Vatican in a press release. In his x @drprevot account, Robert Prevost had criticized the policy of US President Donald Trump about immigration, as well as his vice president JD Vance.
The presence of potatoes on social networks began on December 12, 2012, when Benoît XVI launched the @Pontifex account on Twitter, today X, and was taken a few months later by Pope Francis, chosen in 2013.
On March 19, 2016, François also opened an official Instagram account, called @franciscus. The presence of Pope Francis on social networks was important: around 50,000 publications in total in the nine accounts x @pontifuex, as well as in @francisco, have accompanied almost every day the pontificate of the Argentine Pope.
According to the Vatican, in 2020, the year marked by the Covid 19 pandemic, his messages were seen 27 billion times.
Source: BFM TV
