2026年3月14日 / 美国东部时间下午1:06 / 法新社
上任十个月后，教皇利奥十四世于周六终于搬进了梵蒂冈使徒宫的公寓——这是一处历史悠久的教皇居所，其前任教皇曾避而不用。
梵蒂冈在一份声明中表示：”今天下午，教皇利奥十四世将入住使徒宫的公寓，与他最亲密的助手一同迁入此前由历任教皇使用的空间。”
利奥是首位美国籍教皇，在2025年5月8日当选为全球14亿天主教徒领袖后，决定搬入此处。
但在已故教皇方济各选择梵蒂冈其他地方一处更为简朴的住所后，这些公寓被废弃，需要大规模翻修。
在此期间，70岁的利奥继续住在梵蒂冈附近的圣职部宫——他担任红衣主教时曾在此居住。
他迁入的这套大公寓包括卧室、小教堂、前厅、图书馆、办公室、餐厅，以及教皇每周日通过一扇俯瞰圣彼得广场的窗户念诵《天使经》的房间。
方济各2013年当选教皇时决定住在梵蒂冈圣玛尔塔宾馆的一间简朴公寓，这一决定令传统主义者震惊，他一直住到去世。
这一举措受到支持简朴教皇形象的信徒称赞，但遭到保守派批评，他们指责他剥夺了教皇职位的神圣性。
教皇公寓位于使徒宫中心，这里设有西斯廷教堂、梵蒂冈图书馆和圣座行政中心国务院。
利奥还重返弗朗西斯科拒绝使用的罗马城外的教皇夏季居所——卡斯特尔甘多尔福。
他每周二大部分时间都在那里度过，在处理工作之余打网球和游泳。
Pope Leo moves into papal residence eschewed by Pope Francis
March 14, 2026 / 1:06 PM EDT / AFP
Ten months after taking office, Pope Leo XIV on Saturday finally moved into his apartments in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, a historic papal residence that his predecessor had eschewed.
“This afternoon, Pope Leo XIV will take possession of the apartment in the Apostolic Palace, moving, with his closest collaborators, into the spaces previously used by his predecessors,” the Vatican said in a statement.
Leo, the first U..S pope, decided to move into the apartments in the wake of his May 8, 2025, election as head of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.
But after being abandoned under the late Pope Francis, who chose a more modest dwelling elsewhere in the Vatican, they required extensive renovation.
Pope Leo XIV visits the papal apartments at the Apostolic Palace on May 12, 2025 in Vatican City, Vatican. Francesco Sforza / Getty Images
During the interim, the 70-year-old Leo continued staying at the Palace of the Holy Office, near the Vatican, where he had lived as a cardinal.
The large apartment he has moved into includes bedrooms, a chapel, a vestibule, a library, an office, a dining room and a room from which the pontiff recites the Angelus prayer every Sunday through a window overlooking St. Peter’s Square.
Francis had shocked traditionalists when he decided on his election in 2013 to live in a simple apartment in the Santa Marta guesthouse in the Vatican, where he remained until death.
The gesture was acclaimed by supporters of a humble pope but attracted criticism from conservatives, who accused him of divesting the papacy of a sacred element.
The papal apartments are in the heart of the Apostolic Palace, which houses the Sistine Chapel, the Apostolic Library and the Secretary of State, the central hub of the Holy See’s administration.
Pope Leo XIV walks in the corridor of the Third Loggia of the Apostolic Palace. Francesco Sforza – Vatican Media Vatican Pool / Getty Images
Leo has also returned to the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, outside Rome, that Francis declined to use.
He spends most Tuesdays there, playing tennis and swimming alongside his work.
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