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Pope Fran­cis, his­to­ry’s first Latin Amer­i­can pon­tiff who charmed the world with his hum­ble style and con­cern for the poor but alien­at­ed con­ser­v­a­tives with cri­tiques of cap­i­tal­ism and cli­mate change, died Mon­day. He was 88.

Bells tolled in church tow­ers across Rome af­ter the an­nounce­ment, which was read out by Car­di­nal Kevin Fer­rell, the Vat­i­can camer­len­go, from the chapel of the Do­mus San­ta Mar­ta, where Fran­cis lived.

“At 7:35 this morn­ing, the Bish­op of Rome, Fran­cis, re­turned to the home of the Fa­ther. His en­tire life was ded­i­cat­ed to the ser­vice of the Lord and of his Church,″ Fer­rell said.