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Luigi Carbone coordinates medical care for Pope Leo XIV
Luigi Carbone coordinates the medical team caring for Pope Leo XIV.
He is head of the Vatican Governorate’s Directorate of Health and Hygiene, a role he was appointed to in June 2025.
Carbone previously served as the directorate’s deputy head and was also a doctor for Pope Francis.
He travels with Leo, carrying medical equipment for checks and emergencies, and has expertise in emergency medicine.
The Vatican has its own health services, while the Gemelli hospital in Rome has a dedicated area for popes who need hospital care.
Leo is expected to be admitted there, with a stay of about one week planned.
Carbone and the pope’s nurses are expected to care for him alongside hospital specialists.
Luigi Carbone coordinates the team of doctors and nurses caring for Pope Leo XIV.
Carbone heads the Vatican Governorate’s Directorate of Health and Hygiene, a role he was appointed to in June last year.
He has accompanied Leo on trips, including a late-September apostolic visit to France.
A medical team is expected to care for Leo during a planned stay of about a week at Rome’s Gemelli hospital.
Carbone previously cared for Pope Francis and gave health updates during Francis’s hospital stay in spring 2025.
- Who
- Luigi Carbone coordinates the medical team caring for Pope Leo XIV.
- What
- Carbone oversees the doctors and nurses who care for the Pope.
- When
- He was appointed head of the Vatican health directorate in June last year.
- Where
- The Vatican and, when needed, Rome’s Gemelli hospital.
- Why
- To coordinate medical care for the Pope, including during travel and a planned hospital stay.
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Carbone provided information about Pope Francis’s health during his final hospital stay.
Pope Leo XIV appointed Carbone head of the Vatican Governorate’s Directorate of Health and Hygiene.
Carbone travelled with Leo XIV on the Pope’s apostolic visit to France.
- Medical coordinator
- Luigi Carbone
- Vatican role
- Head of the Directorate of Health and Hygiene
- Appointment
- June last year
- France trip
- Late September
- Planned hospital stay
- About one week at Gemelli hospital
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