This picture taken and handout on April 21, 2025 by The Vatican Media reveals cardinal Kevin Farrell, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church saying the loss of life of Pope Francis in The Vatican. (Picture by Handout / VATICAN MEDIA / AFP)
VATICAN CITY — With Pope Francis’s loss of life, the quick operating of the Vatican is now within the arms of 1 cardinal, Dublin-born Cardinal Kevin Farrell.
Generally known as the Camerlengo, and appointed by the pope, it’s he who will lead conferences to find out the date of Francis’s funeral, and supervise different organizational duties, culminating within the Conclave to elect the following pope.
On Monday night, Farrell was as a result of preside over the ceremony that might see Francis’s physique positioned in his coffin within the chapel of the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta, the place the pope had resided, and died.
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Earlier on Monday, it was Farrell who introduced to the world the loss of life of the 88-year-old pope.
“This morning at 7:35 am (0535 GMT) the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the house of the Father.
“His total life was devoted to the service of the Lord and his church,” mentioned Farrell, talking from the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta.
Farrell, 77, who has twin American and Irish citizenship, has served as Camerlengo since February 2019.
Recognized for his humorousness and for talking Spanish with an Irish brogue, the cardinal — who as soon as was chaplain at Mexico’s College of Monterrey — now serves because the prefect for the Dicastery for Laity, Household and Life.
He was requested by Francis in 2016 to go the newly created dicastery combining the features of two earlier ones, and moved to Rome for his first Vatican posting.
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He was made a cardinal by Francis that very same 12 months.
Since January 2024, Farrell has been president of the Vatican Metropolis State Supreme Courtroom.
Earlier, he spent the majority of his priesthood in the USA, practically 30 years within the Washington DC space and 9 years in Dallas.
In a 2016 interview in The Irish Occasions, Farrell defined how when his secretary in Dallas advised him that Pope Francis was on the cellphone to inform him he can be made a cardinal, he advised her, “Like hell he’s”.
“I stored saying to her, ‘No, that’s certainly one of my bishop pals, simply messing.’”
In his function of quickly managing the Holy See, Farrell will probably be helped by three cardinals.
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As Camerlengo, he has the correct to ask all of the Vatican departments for price range stories, financial info and particulars on different ongoing affairs.
