Robert Sarah

Robert Sarah is a Guinean Catholic prelate who served as prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments from 23 November 2014 to 20 February 2021. He previously served as secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples under Pope John Paul II and president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum under Pope Benedict XVI. He was made a cardinal in 2010.
Following the death of Pope Francis in 2025, Sarah was mentioned as a papabile, a leading candidate for the papacy, by international media outlets such as Le Monde and The Guardian, and by Catholic publications including Crux and the Catholic Herald.