Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 1492 papal conclave was the first to be held in the Sistine Chapel, the site of all conclaves since 1878. A papal conclave is a gathering of the College of Cardinals convened to elect a bishop of Rome, also known as the pope.
All but five papal conclaves since 1455 have been held in the Apostolic Palace. The 1799–1800 papal conclave was held in San Giorgio Monastery in Venice, the last papal election site outside of Rome. The Quirinal Palace was the site of the four conclaves prior to the seizure of Rome by the forces of the Italian unification.
Pope Benedict XIII died on February 21, 1730, at the age of eighty-one. The conclave which followed is considered to be the longest and most corrupt of the 18th century. [ 1 ] The conclave opened on March 5 with thirty cardinals, but the numbers increased as more began to arrive.
The January 1276 papal conclave (January 21–22), was the 1st papal conclave held under the rules of constitution Ubi periculum, issued by Pope Gregory X in 1274, which established papal conclaves. According to Ubi periculum Cardinals were to be secluded in a closed area; they were not even accorded separate rooms.
The papal conclave held on 25 and 26 August 1978 was the first of the two held that year. It was convoked to elect a successor to Paul VI, who had died on 6 August 1978.. After the cardinal electors assembled in Rome, they elected Cardinal Albino Luciani, Patriarch of Venice, as the new pope on the fourth ba
The 1513 papal conclave, occasioned by the death of Pope Julius II on 21 February 1513, opened on 4 March with twenty-five cardinals in attendance, out of a total number of thirty-one. The Conclave was presided over by Cardinal Raffaele Sansoni Riario , who was both Dean of the College of Cardinals and Cardinal Chamberlain of the Holy Roman ...
Lists of papal conclaves (13 P) 0–9. 1939 papal conclave (2 P) 2005 papal conclave (3 P) 2013 papal conclave (4 P) Pages in category "Papal conclaves"
Pope Pius X had issued two apostolic constitutions on the subject of papal conclaves. The first, Commissum Nobis of 20 January 1904, eliminated any secular monarch's claim to a veto over a candidate for election. It established that anyone who attempted to introduce a veto in the conclave would incur automatic excommunication.