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Who destroys the popes ring?

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10y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Upon a papal death, the ring is ceremonially crushed in the presence of other cardinals by the Camerlengo, in order to prevent the sealing of backdated, forged documents during the interregnum, or sede vacante.

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