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Australian has died of heart complications after hip surgery, church leaders confirm
Obituary: Australia’s most powerful Catholic was dogged by scandalFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastCardinal George Pell, Australia’s most senior Catholic who was found guilty and then acquitted of child sexual abuse in recent years, has died in Vatican City aged 81.
Pell, the former archbishop of Melbourne and Sydney, died on Tuesday evening after suffering a cardiac arrest following hip surgery in Rome.
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