Vatican Announces Pope Francis Dies Of Stroke And Heart Failure, Confirmed EKG Procedure

Pope Francis. (Wikimedia Commons/Jeffrey Bruno)

JAKARTA - Pope Francis has died of an irreversible stroke and heart failure, Vatican doctor Andrea Arcangeli said in a death certificate released Monday for the 88-year-old Pope.

The certificate published by the Vatican said the Pope had been in a coma before his death on Monday morning, quoted by Reuters on April 22.

Director of the Vatican Health and Hygiene Directorate Dr. Andrea Arcangeli issued an official certificate of Pope Francis' death.

The Holy Throne Press Office released the report on Monday night.

The cause of death was identified as a stroke, followed by a coma and an irreversible collusion collapse.

Pope Francis is known to have a history of acute respiratory failure caused by multimicrobial bilateral pneumonia, multipel bronkiectics, high blood pressure, and type II diabetes, the report said.

Pope Francis' death was confirmed by "electrocardiography," the report said, a cardiac monitoring procedure better known as EKG.

"I hereby declare," Dr. Arcangeli wrote, "that the cause of death, as far as my knowledge and judgment is concerned, is as stated above," quoted by Vatican News.

As previously reported, the Vatican announced Pope Francis had died on Monday morning local time.

"Dear brothers and sisters, with deep sadness I must announce the death of our Holy Father Francis," Cardinal Kevin Farrell announced on the Vatican TV channel.

"At 7:35 this morning the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to Father's house," the announcement continued.