President Christine Carla Kangaloo was among leaders who expressed condolences and loss after the death of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, better known as Pope Francis, the world’s first Latin American Pontiff, describing him as a transformational leader.

Francis died on April 21 at 7.35 am. He was 88. The Vatican said Francis died of a cerebral stroke which put him into a coma and led to irreversible heart failure.

Kangaloo sent condolences on the pope's passing in a letter to Cardinal Giovanni Battista.