The Vatican announced on Monday that Pope Francis had died of a stroke that caused a coma and irreversible heart failure.
"Death was confirmed by an electrocardiogram," reads the death certificate signed by the director of the Vatican Department of Health and Hygiene, Professor Andrea Arcangeli.
"I confirm that His Holiness Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio), born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) on December 17, 1936, resident of the Vatican, citizen of the Vatican, died at 7:35 a.m. on April 21, 2025, in his apartment in the Santa Marta residence," he wrote.
Arcangeli states that the pope first fell into a coma after the stroke, and then died.
The causes of death were "stroke", "coma" and "irreversible cardiocirculatory failure", it said.
The document also adds the pope's previous health problems, "episodes of acute respiratory failure with bilateral multimicrobial pneumonia, hypertension and type II diabetes."
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