Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the senior Vatican official who announced Pope Francis' death on Monday morning, will serve as the interim manager of the Vatican until a new pope is elected, according to Church officials.

Cardinal Kevin Farrell became the acting head of the Vatican after Pope Francis’s death on Monday. Farrell is the camerlengo of the Catholic Church, acting as a personal appointee of the pope and carrying out “a specific series of functions in the crucial time of transition from one pope to his successor.