{"id":83803,"date":"2026-06-19T08:42:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83803"},"modified":"2026-06-19T08:43:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:43:03","slug":"today-is-pope-leos-44th-ordination-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/today-is-pope-leos-44th-ordination-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Today Is Pope Leo\u2019s 44th Ordination Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Aleteia<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.en.aleteia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/Robert-Prevost-with-Pope-John-Paul-II-01.jpg?resize=620,350&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Robert-Prevost-with-Pope-John-Paul-II-01\" width=\"402\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\" \">\n<p>t the age of 26, Robert Prevost was ordained a priest of the Order of St. Augustine. It was June 19, 1982.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\" \">\n<p>The whole Aleteia community joins in fervent prayer for our Shepherd today. We invite you to particularly take him and his ministry to the Lord through the Virgin Mary by praying the Rosary. The young Prevost was <a title=\"ordained in Rome\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2025-05\/biography-of-robert-francis-prevost-pope-leo-xiv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ordained in Rome<\/a>\u00a0on June 19, 1982, at the Augustinian College of Saint Monica by Archbishop Jean Jadot, then pro-president of the Secretariat for Non-Christians, which later became the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and then the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Aleteia: t the age of 26, Robert Prevost was ordained a priest of the Order of St. Augustine. It.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83805,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83803\/revisions\/83805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}