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The pope may on this occasion choose to give the shorter episcopal blessing as his first apostolic blessing instead of the traditional Urbi et Orbi blessing; this happened most recently with Pope Paul VI after his election at the 1963 conclave. [111] Beginning with Pope John Paul II, the last three popes elected (including Pope Francis) have ...
Pope Marcellus II was elected unanimously on April 9, 1555, and there were high hopes for accelerating the reform of the Church with his election. Unfortunately, shortly after his election, the 54-year-old pope fell ill and died in the early morning hours of May 1, 1555, after only 22 days of pontificate.
Elections that elected papal claimants currently regarded by the Catholic Church as antipopes are italicized. SS. Pietro e Cesareo in Terracina, the site of the first papal election outside Rome The 1119 papal election took place in Cluny Abbey as a result of the expulsion of Pope Gelasius II from Rome by Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor following the Investiture Controversy.
The 1565–66 papal conclave (20 December – 7 January) was convened on the death of Pope Pius IV and ended in the election of Pope Pius V. Background ...
The papal conclave held from 18 to 20 February 1878 saw the election of Vincenzo Pecci, who took the name Leo XIII as pope.Held after the death of Pius IX, who had had the longest pontificate since Saint Peter, it was the first election of a pope who would not rule the Papal States.
At the death of Sixtus IV, the conclave of cardinals that met to elect his successor numbered thirty-two cardinals. [1]The immediate context of the election was the nearly unprecedented packing of the College of Cardinals by Sixtus IV, not only in terms of overall size, but also in terms of cardinal-nephews and crown cardinals. [2]
The 1521–22 papal conclave elected Pope Adrian VI to succeed Pope Leo X. The conclave was marked by the early candidacies of cardinal-nephew Giulio de'Medici (future Pope Clement VII ) and Alessandro Farnese (future Pope Paul III ), although the Colonna and other cardinals blocked their election.
The conclave of 1939 was the shortest of the 20th century. [1] It was also the last to include all living cardinals. Pacelli was the first Pope born in Rome since Innocent XIII , in 1721, and the first member of the Roman Curia to become Pontiff since Gregory XVI (1831).