Pope Francis died 21 April after suffering a stroke and heart attack, said the director of Vatican City State’s department of health services.
The pope had also gone into a coma. “I certify that His Holiness Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 17 December, 1936, resident of Vatican City, Vatican citizen, passed away at 7.35am on 21/04/2025 in his apartment at the Domus Sanctae Marthae, Vatican City, from: cerebral stroke, coma, irreversible cardiovascular collapse,” said the statement, signed by the director, Dr Andrea Arcangeli, and published by the Vatican press office.
The doctor said the pope also had a history of: “a previous episode of acute respiratory failure due to polymicrobial bilateral pneumonia; multiple bronchiectases; arterial hypertension; and type II diabetes.”
A heart monitor or ECG was used to ascertain his death, that is, that there was no longer any heart activity, he wrote on the signed declaration.
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