25-06-2025
The Chosen's Jonathan Roumie Meets Pope Leo XIV After Wrapping Season 6 Crucifixion Shoot in Italy
What a #blessed week for Jonathan Roumie.
Just days after he was named TVLine's latest Performer of the Week, the star of TV's The Chosen (the Christian historical drama that now calls Prime Video home) met Pope Leo XIV, during a Wednesday visit to the Vatican.
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The meeting between Jesus' portrayer and the head of the Catholic Church was captured in a photo shared by the Pope's Instagram account, seen below.
'Every time we perform an act of faith addressed to Jesus, we grow in our connection with Him, and His grace is bestowed immediately,' the caption accompanying that photo and several others reads. 'At times we are unaware of it, but in a secret and real way, His grace reaches us and gradually transforms our life from within.'
Roumie, along with The Chosen creator Dallas Jenkins and castmates George Xanthis (who plays John the Apostle), Vanessa Benavente (Mother Mary) and Elizabeth Tabish (Mary Magdalene), are at the Vatican this week after having just wrapped three weeks of filming in southern Italy for the Crucifixion scenes of Season 6, which is due out next year.
As reported by the Catholic News Agency, The Chosen's cast and crew on June 22 finished filming Jesus' crucifixion in Matera, in the Italian region of Basilicata, which is the same location used for Mel Gibson's 2004 film The Passion of the Christ.
'When [Pope Leo XIV] was elected, I wept, because I never thought I'd see an American pope in my lifetime,' Roumie, who is Catholic, is reported as remarking. To get 'to communicate to him in our native language this week is just something I never thought I would see in my life.'
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