Notice from the Holy See's Office on Liturgical Celebrations

Vatican, 22nd April, 2025 - NOTIFICATION: TRANSLATION OF THE COFFIN OF THE ROMAN PONTIFF FRANCIS INTO THE VATICAN BASILICA

On Wednesday, 23 April 2025, at 9.00 a.m. local time (12.30 p.m India time), the coffin with the deceased Roman Pontiff Francis will be carried from the Chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae to the Papal Basilica of Saint Peter, in accordance with the provisions of the Ordo Exsequiarum Romani Pontificis (nos. 41-65).

After a moment of prayer, presided over by His Reverend Eminence Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, the translation will begin.

The procession will cross Piazza Santa Marta and Piazza dei Protomartiri Romani; from the Arco delle Campane, it will enter Saint Peter’s Square and then enter the Vatican Basilica via the central door.

At the Altar of the Confessio, the Cardinal Camerlengo will preside over the Liturgy of the Word, at the end of which the visits to the body of the Roman Pontiff will begin.

The Patriarchs and the Cardinals, wearing their own choral habit, should be present in the Chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae at 8.45 a.m.

The Archbishops and Bishops, Canons of the Vatican Chapter, the Vatican Ordinary Minor Penitents and, in accordance with the Motu Proprio “Pontificalis Domus”, all the members of the Papal Chapel, wearing their own choral habit, are requested to be present in Piazza Santa Marta by 8.30 a.m. local time (12:00 pm India Time)