David Willey, esteemed BBC Vatican correspondent, dies aged 930

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• July 12, 2026

David Willey, who worked as a BBC foreign correspondent for more than half a century, has died aged 93. He reported from Algeria, Vietnam and China, but is best known for his time in Rome as the BBC’s Vatican correspondent, where he covered the papacies of five popes. Willey, widely regarded as one of the