Pope Leo XIV has appointed his longtime collaborator, the Peruvian priest and biblical scholar Father Edgard Iván Rimaycuna Inga, as a Chaplain of His Holiness.
The decision places the Pope’s personal secretary formally within the Papal Household, in accordance with the norms set by Saint Paul VI’s Pontificalis Domus and means he officially now is a Monsignor.
Father Rimaycuna, who followed the then-Bishop Robert Francis Prevost from Chiclayo, the Peruvian capital, to Rome and continued in service when Prevost was elected to the papacy in May 2025, now assumes the lowest of the three monsignorial dignities.
