- Pope Leo XIV, who is US-born, had a bank employee hang up on him after she believed his call to change his address and phone number was a prank.
- The incident occurred two months into his papacy when he attempted to update his details with his Chicago bank from the Vatican.
- The teller told Leo that he would need to travel to the bank in person to make the change, according to his brother, John Prevost.
- Mr Prevost told the sceptical teller that she was speaking to the Pope, “who’s in Rome right now”, but said she replied “Oh really?” and hung up.
- The Pope’s brother said that “one of the provincials” eventually went to the bank to sort out the situation.
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