2013 papal conclave
conclave convened to elect a pope to succeed Benedict XVI
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The 2013 papal conclave was when cardinals met to elect the pope to replace Pope Benedict XVI after his resignation on 28 February 2013. After the 115 cardinal-electors gathered, they set 12 March 2013 as the beginning of the conclave. On the fifth ballot,[1] the conclave elected Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, SJ, Archbishop of Buenos Aires. He took the pontifical name of Francis. It took two days to elected Bergoglio as the next pope.
Angelo Sodano was the dean of this conclave. It was held at the Sistine Chapel in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City.
Possible candidates
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Besides Bergoglio, the following cardinals were seen as possible candidates for pope:
Angelo Bagnasco, Archbishop of Genoa[2][3]
Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York[4][5]
Péter Erdő, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest[6][7]- Seán Patrick O'Malley, Archbishop of Boston[8]
Marc Ouellet, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops[9][10]- Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture[11][12]
Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches[13]
Odilo Pedro Scherer, Archbishop of São Paulo[14]
Christoph Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna[11]- Angelo Scola, Archbishop of Milan[9][15]
Luis Antonio Tagle, Archbishop of Manila[16]
Peter Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace[17][18]
Aftermath
changePope Francis celebrated his inauguration on 19 March 2013 and became Bishop of Rome on 7 April.[19]
In October 2013, the Italian weekly magazine Panorama claimed that the United States National Security Agency had targeted cardinals in the conclave for surveillance, including Cardinal Bergoglio.[20] An NSA spokesperson denied this.[21]
References
change- ↑ "White smoke emerges signalling new pope elected". Raidió Teilifís Éireann. 13 March 2013. Archived from the original on 15 March 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
- ↑ "One Of These Men Will Be The Next Pope". Business Insider. 11 February 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
- ↑ "Choose your own pope – with our interactive Pontifficator". The Guardian. 12 March 2013. Contains descriptions of all 115 cardinal electors, 13 of whom are marked as papabili.
- ↑ Donadio, Rachel; Povoledo, Elisabetta (12 February 2013). "Pope Resigns with Church at Crossroads". New York Times. pp. A1 A11. Retrieved 12 February 2013.
- ↑ "New pontiff by March says Vatican". The Irish Times. 11 February 2013.
- ↑ "Mögliche Nachfolger: Wer hat die größten Chancen
den Platz von Joseph Ratzinger einzunehmen?". NewsAT. 11 February 2013. Archived from the original on 14 February 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2022. - ↑ "Hungarian Erdo "favourite as next pope" - papal entourage". The Italian Insider. 11 February 2013. Archived from the original on 16 February 2013.
- ↑ Connor, Tracy (20 February 2013). "Boston's sandal-wearing Cardinal O'Malley getting papal buzz". NBC News. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Who Will Take Up the Keys of Peter=Sandro Magister". 14 February 2013. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
- ↑ "Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet among frontrunners to replace Pope Benedict XVI". National Post. 11 February 2013.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Tom Heneghan (March 1, 2013). "Cardinals start to winnow down papal candidates lists". Reuters. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
- ↑ Katharine Lackey (March 10, 2013). "CARDINAL GIANFRANCO RAVASI". USA Today. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
- ↑ Sandri, Leonardo (11 February 2013). "Argentine Cardinal Possible Successor To Pope Benedict XVI". The Huffington Post.
- ↑ Gerard O'Connell, Andrea Tornielli (March 2, 2013). "Un ticket per votare il primo Papa latinoamericano". La Stampa. Archived from the original on 10 March 2013. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
- ↑ Donadio, Rachel; Alan Cowell (11 February 2013). "Pope Benedict XVI Says He Will Resign". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
- ↑ "A look at possible papal contenders". CNN. Archived from the original on 2 March 2013. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
- ↑ Andrea Tornielli (March 3, 2013). "Scola becomes "papabile" again: The Americans are also with him". La Stampa. Archived from the original on 10 March 2013. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
- ↑ "Austrian Cardinal Schoenborn a favored papal candidate _ but mom does not want him in the job". Fox News. Associated Press. March 12, 2013. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
- ↑ Pullella, Philip (7 April 2013). "Pope installed as bishop of Rome, appeals to lapsed faithful". Reuters. Archived from the original on 10 April 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
- ↑ "Esclusiva Panorama: Datagate, anche il Papa è stato intercettato - Panorama". Panorama (in Italian). 30 October 2013. Archived from the original on 16 January 2014. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
- ↑ "US 'spied on future Pope Francis during Vatican conclave'". Telegraph.co.uk. Archived from the original on 3 May 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
