A couple sleep in Rome ahead of the funeral

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Members of the clergy arrive for the service

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Cardinals arrive to be seated in St Peter’s Square

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Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with US president Donald Trump before the funeral at St Peter’s Basilica

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People gather in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican

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Members of the clergy gather ahead of the funeral mass

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US president Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive

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Former US president Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, walk towards their seats in St Peter’s Square

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Attendees and nuns stand in the street before the funeral ceremony

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Britain’s foreign secretary David Lammy, prime minister Keir Starmer and his wife, Victoria Starmer, arrive in St Peter’s Square

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Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and first lady Olena Zelenska attend the funeral

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Cardinals take their places for the mass

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Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni arrives at the funeral of Pope Francis

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Britain’s Prince William walks towards his position

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People watch the funeral ceremony on a large screen in Via della Conciliazione in Rome

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Pallbearers carry the coffin of Pope Francis

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Donald and Melania Trump, and France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife, Brigitte Macron, take their seats for the funeral

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Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re leads the funeral mass

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St Peter’s Square during the funeral

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Members of the clergy watch the late Pope Francis’ funeral ceremony on a large screen in Via della Conciliazione

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Archbishop Diego Giovanni Ravelli, kneeling right, presides over the funeral of Pope Francis

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Cardinals attend the ceremony

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Faithful and members of the clergy in St Peter’s Square

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Italian president Sergio Mattarella, Argentina’s general secretary of the presidency Karina Milei, Argentina’s president Javier Milei, Queen Rania Of Jordan and King Abdullah II of Jordan at the funeral

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The coffin of Pope Francis is carried during the funeral

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Catholic believers attend Pope Francis’s requiem mass at the Esplanade of Tasitolu in Dili in East Timor

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Spectators wait behind barriers in central Rome

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Clergy attending the funeral in St Peter’s Square

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A photograph taken from St Peter Basilica during the funeral ceremony

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Members of the clergy share the Sign of Peace during the funeral

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President Donald Trump, front row second from right, and Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, front row second from left, are seen among other dignitaries during the funeral of Pope Francis

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Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re blesses the coffin

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Pallbearers carry the coffin to be taken in procession to the church of Santa Maria Maggiore

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Mourners take pictures of the coffin of the late Pope Francis as it is transported by popemobile from St Peter’s Basilica to Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica

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The vehicle carrying the coffin of the late Pope Francis drives past the Colosseum

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Pallbearers carry the coffin into the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major, the Pope’s final resting place

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