People pray in front of a portrait of Pope Francis at a Catholic church in Chennai, India. Photo: AFP / R. SATISH BABU
With the death of Pope Francis at the age of 88, the world's attention now turns to who will replace him.
Predicting who will be chosen as the next leader of the world's 1.3 billion Catholics is notoriously fraught with difficulties.
Miles Pattenden is a Catholic historian based at Oxford University
