Cardinal electors for the 1914 papal conclave

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Cardinal Giacomo della Chiesa was elected Pope Benedict XV by the 1914 conclave on 3 September. Benedictus XV, by Nicola Perscheid, 1915 (retouched).jpg
Cardinal Giacomo della Chiesa was elected Pope Benedict XV by the 1914 conclave on 3 September.

The papal conclave of 1914 was convened to elect a pope, the leader of the Catholic Church, to succeed Pope Pius X following his death on 20 August 1914.

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Of the 65 members of the College of Cardinals at the time of Pius X's death, 57 participated in the subsequent conclave. William Henry O'Connell and James Gibbons arrived too late from the United States, [1] as did Louis-Nazaire Bégin from Quebec. [2] Sebastiano Martinelli, Franziskus von Sales Bauer, Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, Giuseppe Antonio Ermenegildo Prisco, and François-Virgile Dubillard were too ill or too frail. [3]

The cardinal electors entered the Sistine Chapel to begin the conclave on 31 August 1914. On 3 September, after ten ballots over four days, they elected Cardinal Giacomo della Chiesa, the archbishop of Bologna, who took the papal name Benedict XV.

Roman Curia

  1. Antonio Agliardi, Apostolic Chancellor
  2. Ottavio Cagiano de Azevedo, Prefect of Religious
  3. Domenico Ferrata, Secretary of Holy Office
  4. Pietro Gasparri, Camerlengo of the College of Cardinals
  5. Filippo Giustini, Secretary of Discipline of the Sacraments
  6. Girolamo Maria Gotti, OCD, Prefect of Propagation of the Faith
  7. Gaetano de Lai, Secretary of Consistorial
  8. Michele Lega, Counselor of Holy Office
  9. Benedetto Lorenzelli, Prefect of Studies
  10. Rafael Merry del Val, Vatican Secretary of State
  11. Francesco di Paola Cassetta, Prefect of Council
  12. Angelo Di Pietro, Apostolic Datary
  13. Aristide Rinaldini, Camerlengo Emeritus of the College of Cardinals
  14. Francesco Salesio Della Volpe, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church
  15. Domenico Serafini, OSB, Assessor of Holy Office
  16. Scipione Tecchi, Assessor of Consistorial
  17. Serafino Vannutelli, Dean of the College of Cardinals
  18. Vincenzo Vannutelli, Prefect of Apostolic Signatura

Europe

Italy

  1. Bartolomeo Bacilieri, Bishop of Verona
  2. Gaetano Bisleti, Grand Prior of the Sovereign Order of Malta
  3. Giulio Boschi, Archbishop of Ferrara
  4. Aristide Cavallari, Patriarch of Venice
  5. Giacomo della Chiesa , Archbishop of Bologna
  6. Diomede Falconio, OFM, Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri [a]
  7. Andrea Carlo Ferrari, Archbishop of Milan
  8. Giuseppe Francica-Nava di Bontifé, Archbishop of Catania
  9. Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, Nuncio emeritus to Austria-Hungary
  10. Alessandro Lualdi, Archbishop of Palermo
  11. Pietro Maffi, Archbishop of Pisa
  12. Basilio Pompili, Vicar General of Rome
  13. Agostino Richelmy, Archbishop of Turin
  14. Antonio Vico, Nuncio to Spain

France

  1. Léon-Adolphe Amette, Archbishop of Paris
  2. Pierre Andrieu, Archbishop of Bordeaux
  3. Louis Billot, SJ
  4. Louis Luçon, Archbishop of Reims
  5. François de Rovérié de Cabrières, Bishop of Montpellier
  6. Hector Sévin, Archbishop of Lyon

Spain

  1. Enrique Almaraz y Santos, Archbishop of Seville
  2. José Cos y Macho, Archbishop of Valladolid
  3. Victoriano Guisasola y Menendez, Archbishop of Toledo
  4. José María Martín de Herrera y de la Iglesia, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela

Austria-Hungary

  1. János Csernoch, Archbishop of Esztergom
  2. Károly Hornig, Bishop of Veszprém
  3. Friedrich Gustav Piffl, CCRSA, Archbishop of Vienna
  4. Lev Skrbenský z Hříště, Archbishop of Prague

United Kingdom

  1. Francis Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster
  2. Michael Logue, Archbishop of Armagh
  3. Francis Aidan Gasquet, OSB, President of Pontifical Commission for the Revision and Emendation of the Vulgate

Germany

  1. Franziskus von Bettinger, Archbishop of Munich and Freising
  2. Felix von Hartmann, Archbishop of Cologne

Portugal

  1. José Sebastião d'Almeida Neto, OFM, Patriarch emeritus of Lisbon
  2. António Mendes Bello, Patriarch of Lisbon

Belgium

  1. Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Archbishop of Mechelen

The Netherlands

  1. Willem van Rossum, CSSR, President of Pontifical Biblical Commission

North America

United States

  1. John Murphy Farley, Archbishop of New York

South America

Brazil

  1. Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti, Archbishop of São Sebastião de Rio de Janeiro

Cardinal electors by country

Nationality of participating cardinal electors
CountryNumber
Italy 32
France 6
Austria-Hungary, Spain 4
United Kingdom 3
Germany, Portugal 2
Belgium, Brazil, Netherlands, United States 1

Notes

  1. ↑ Falconio was an Italian-born U.S. citizen who spent much of his career in Canada and the United States.

References

  1. ↑ Chadwick, Owen (1998). A History of the Popes, 1830-1914. Ocford University Press. p. 336. ISBN   978-0-19-926286-1 . Retrieved 13 November 2017.
  2. ↑ Pollard, John (2005). Benedict XV: The Unknown Pope and the Pursuit of Peace. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 60. ISBN   9780860124085 . Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  3. ↑ Burkle-Young, Francis A. (2000). Papal Elections in the Age of Transition, 1878-1922. Lexington Books. p. 103. ISBN   9780739101148 . Retrieved 15 November 2017.


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