Vatican says Pope Francis died of stroke and subsequent irreversible heart failure.
Today, Pope Francis has died aged 88.
The first Latin American leader of the of the Roman Catholic Church, Francis had been in hospital for 5 weeks due to pneumonia. Adam and Aleem Maqbool, the BBC’s Religion Editor discuss his legacy.
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