2013 papal conclave

Papal conclave
March 2013
Dates and location
12–13 March 2013
Sistine Chapel, Apostolic Palace,
Vatican City
Key officials
DeanAngelo Sodano
Sub-deanRoger Etchegaray
CamerlengoTarcisio Bertone
ProtopriestPaulo Evaristo Arns
ProtodeaconJean-Louis Tauran
SecretaryLorenzo Baldisseri
Election
CandidatesSee Papabili
Ballots5
Elected pope
Jorge Mario Bergoglio
Name taken: Francis
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Pope Francis after he was elected pope

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, 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

Then-Buenos Aires mayor Mauricio Macri meeting a newly elected Pope Francis

Besides Bergoglio, the following cardinals were seen as possible candidates for pope:

Aftermath

Pope Francis celebrated his inauguration on 19 March 2013 and became Bishop of Rome on 7 April.

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. An NSA spokesperson denied this.

References

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