In 1903, the pope鈥檚 missing Fisherman鈥檚 Ring and fortune worth up to $45 million were missing. Ancient tradition mandated that the old ring had to be destroyed before a new pope could be elected.
Francis' death comes a day after the pope had made his first prolonged public appearance since being discharged on March 23 from a 38-day hospital stay for pneumonia
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, later known as Pope Francis, was elected on March 13, 2013, but came close to papacy years prior. In the 2005 election of Pope Benedict, Bergoglio earned the second-most votes.
Pope John Paul II was the last pope to die in office. He was succeeded by Pope Benedict XVI, who resigned from the papacy in 2013. Pope Francis was elected by the papal conclave on March 13, 2013.
The 85-year-old pope is making the week-long apology tour of Canada to fulfill a promise he made to Indigenous delegations that visited him this year at the Vatican, where he made the initial apology.
The July 24-30 trip will include at least five encounters with native people as Francis makes good on a promise to apologize on their home territory for the Church's role in the state-sanctioned schools, which sought to erase indigenous cultures.
Vladimir Putin, a member of the Russian Orthodox Church, has described Moscow's actions as a "special military operation" in Ukraine aimed at demilitarizing and "denazifying" the country. Moscow has denied targetting civilians
