The Eze Ndigbo  Ghana, HRM Eze, Dr Chukwudi Jude Ihenetu, has joined  other world leaders  to congratulate  the new Catholic Pontif, Robert Francis Prevost who goes by the title

Pope Leo XIV.

The new Pope, Robert Prevost, 69, is the first American pontiff to be elected leader of the over 1.4 billion Catholic Church members worldwide. 

The Chicago-born Prevost is seen as a reformer and worked for many years as a missionary in Peru before attainment of his new statues.

In a statement  issued  from the revered Obi-Ukwu Obieziokwu palace in Ghana, HRM Ihenetu  said: “On behalf  of elders in Obieziokwu palace and Ndigbo in Ghana, I

rejoice with the new Pope and pray that God Almighty  will give him the grace to supretend over the Catholic  family. 

“At this time, when the world is in turmoil, when poverty  and war is plaguing  many countries, I pray that the Pope would have the grace and the courage to continue  from  where Pope Francis  stopped by becoming  friend of the poor and the less privileged. and not to support gayism, ” he prayed.