Pope Francis' death comes one day after greeting Easter Sunday crowds in his popemobile. He had battled a respiratory tract infection for weeks.

Pope Francis, a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church's conservatives and inspired some progressives, has died.

The death of Francis, who became the first Latin-American pontiff in 2013 and was one of the oldest popes in the church’s history, came weeks after he was discharged from a Rome hospital having battled a life-threatening case of pneumonia in both lungs.