Papal envoy to UK says pope visit likely

A visit to the United Kingdom by Pope

Leo XIV in the not-so-distant future is likely, the Vatican's

envoy to Britain said Tuesday.

The pope's representative in Great Britain, Nuncio Archbishop

Miguel Maury Buendía, said he hopes that Leo will visit England

and "awaken the conscience of the West." A papal visit to

England is "probable, desirable, and I would even say

inevitable," Buendía, the apostolic nuncio to Great Britain

since 2023, told EWTN.

A visit to Great Britain is "probable, because King Charles III

made a state visit to the Vatican last year, and it is logical

that the United Kingdom now invites Pope Leo XIV to return the

visit," he added.

The last pope to make an official visit to the United Kingdom

was Benedict XVI in 2010.

Archbishop Maury said that, as an English-speaking pope, Leo

XIV's welcome would be "extraordinary, and his message would be

amplified throughout the English-speaking world.

"The bishops of England and Scotland also hope that a papal

visit can reinvigorate the proclamation of the faith in one of

Europe's most secularized societies, a society that, I would

say, is experiencing a period of grace," the papal

representative said.

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