This description is about the death of Pope John Paul II, the spiritual leader of the Catholic Church. On April 2, 2005, the beloved Pope passed away at the age of 84 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. His death was mourned by millions around the world, and his
On 2 April 2005, at 21:37 CEST (UTC+2), Pope John Paul II died at the age of 84 in his private apartment at the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. His funeral, held on 8 April, was one of the largest gatherings of Christianity's faithful in history, with approximately four million mourners converging on Rome. The ceremonies followed the revised papal funerary rites that John Paul II himself had established in 1996 through the apostolic constitution Universi Dominici gregis, which governed both the selection of his successor and the rituals surrounding his death and burial.