Updates: Pope Francis Buried Inside His Favorite Rome Church

The official programme of the ceremonies for Pope Francis:

9:00 am IST

St Peter’s Sq. opens.

1:00 pm IST

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1:30 pm IST

The funeral mass begins. It is going to be presided over by Giovanni Battista Re, the dean of the School of Cardinals.

Pope Francis’s picket and zinc coffin, sealed on Friday night, might be positioned in entrance of the basilica earlier than a brief raised altar. To its left, going through St Peter’s, will sit the red-robed cardinals. To the best, official delegations from world wide, seated in alphabetical order.

The ceremony ought to final about 90 minutes, with 224 cardinals and 750 clergymen and bishops in attendance.

3:00 pm IST

The coffin leaves for Santa Maria Maggiore, the Rome basilica the place Pope Francis might be buried.

4:30 pm IST

The coffin arrives at Santa Maria Maggiore, the place it will likely be welcomed by a bunch of the “poor and needy”.

The burial, presided over by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who as camerlengo is operating the Vatican’s day-to-day affairs till a brand new pope is elected, will happen in personal.