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A conclave was convened on 12 March 2013 to elect a pope to succeed Benedict XVI, who had resigned on 28 February. 115 participating cardinal-electors gathered. On the fifth ballot, [ 1 ] the conclave elected Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio , SJ, Archbishop of Buenos Aires .
The oldest cardinal elector in the conclave was Walter Kasper, at the age of 79, [b] [7] and the youngest was Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal, at the age of 53. [8] Another 90 cardinals were ineligible to participate in the conclave, for reasons of age. [3] The cardinal electors entered the Sistine Chapel to begin the conclave on 12 March 2013.
In 2013, the Portuguese section of Vatican Radio reported that at the conclusion of the 2013 conclave, the newly elected Pope Francis bestowed his cardinalitial zucchetto on Archbishop Lorenzo Baldisseri, the secretary of that conclave, [103] and on 22 February 2014 at Pope Francis' first consistory, Baldisseri was formally made a cardinal with ...
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.
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0–9. January 1276 papal conclave; July 1276 papal conclave; 1294 papal conclave; 1303 papal conclave; 1304–1305 papal conclave; 1314–1316 papal conclave
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 from 1 May 1314 to 7 August 1316 in the apostolic palace of Carpentras and then the Dominican house in Lyon was one of the longest conclaves in the history of the Roman Catholic Church and the first conclave of the Avignon Papacy. [1]