Now Pope Leo XIV has an official account on Instagram. His name is @pontifex – Pope Leo XIV and at the moment he published only a post. The news came after days when the Vatican social networks had remained completely stopped. There was still the phrase on Twitter: “Apostolic Vacans”.
Habemus Social. We keep the linguistic, indeclinable loan. Pope Leo XIV has published his first post on Instagramthe platform on which Pope Francis had gathered beyond 10 million followers. Robert Francis Prevost while writing this article has 140,000 followers. Few compared to its predecessor, a good result if we think it has been achieved with a Post and a story. It follows only 4 accounts: all of the official media of the Vatican.
For now the choices are very standard. The first post was one Gallery of images that tell the first days of Pope Francis. Copy is a translation into seven languages of the message with which theMay 8 inaugurated his pontificate: “Peace is with all of you! This is the first greeting of the Risen Christ, the good shepherd”. The Instagram account @Franciscus It will still remain active, even if new content will not be published: it will be a digital memory space dedicated to Pope Francis.
The official account is @Pontifex – Pope Leo XIV. Bio is clear: “Peace be with you all!” (Official Account, Copyright Vatican Media). And this will now help the faithful to understand what to follow in the fake accounts network that have been born in the last few days. Also because no official news came from the Vatican on the future of their social networks for several days. On X we still read apostolic holiday office.
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The Dicastery of communication He has released a press release whose explains what the future of the Pope’s social networks will also be on X. On this social network Another account should not be followeduse it @Pontifex And all those connected will pass directly in the hands of the social media manager of the new Pope. The old posts of Pope Francis will be kept on a separate account.
“Pope Leo XIV inherits the @pontifex accounts that had already been used by Pope Francis and even before Pope Benedict XVI and who, publishing in nine languages. The contents published by Pope Francis will soon be archived on a specific section of the institutional website of the Holy See”.
