Overview

• Approximately 200,000 people attended the funeral Mass at St. Peter’s Square, presided over by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re.
• More than 160 international delegations, including heads of state like Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, paid their respects.
• The six-kilometer funeral procession through Rome marks the first papal procession of its kind in over a century.
• Pope Francis will be buried in Santa Maria Maggiore, breaking a 120-year tradition of papal burials in the Vatican grottoes.
• Heightened security measures, including 10,000 personnel and fighter jets on standby, were deployed for the event.