Papal conclave, 1823
The conclave of 1823 was held from 2 to 28 September 1823., It chose the Cardinal Vicar Annibale della Genga Sermattei Pope. He took the name Pope Leo XII. of.
General and election process
After the death of Pope Pius VII on August 20, 1823 Cardinal Dean Giulio Maria della Somaglia called the cardinals together for the conclave.
During the period of vacancy Bartolomeo Pacca led the office as Camerlengo.
The papabili were Francesco Saverio Castiglioni, who was supported by the more political cardinals, and Antonio Gabriele Severoli, the candidate of the Zealots. Cardinal Giuseppe Albani, however, presented the veto of the Austrian Emperor Francis I. against Severoli.
In the first conclave were Severoli, Castiglioni and della Somaglia forward. Nevertheless, none of them could reach the required two -thirds majority. The Zealots finally agreed on Cardinal della Genga Sermattei, then as Leo XII. could ascend the papal throne.
Cardinals
During the period of vacancy, there were 53 cardinals, 49 of them took part in the conclave. 47 of the 49 participants were created by Pius VII, two of Pius VI.
Participant
The following cardinals took part in the conclave:
- Giulio Maria della Somaglia, Cardinal Dean
- Bartolomeo Pacca, Kardinalsubdekan
- Giuseppe Spina
- Pietro Francesco Galleffi
- Tommaso Arezzo
- Francesco Saverio Castiglioni
- Giuseppe Firrao, Cardinal Proto priest
- Luigi Ruffo Scilla
- Cesare Brancadoro
- Carlo Francesco Maria Caselli
- Joseph Fesch
- Carlo Oppizzoni
- (Elected to Leo XII. ) Annibale della Genga Sermattei
- Pietro Gravina
- Antonio Gabriele Severoli
- Morozzo Giuseppe Della Rocca
- Fabrizio Sceberras Testaferrata
- Benedetto Naro
- Francesco Leoni Cesarei
- Dionisio Bardaxí y Azara
- Antonio Lamberto Rusconi
- Emmanuele de Gregorio
- Giorgio Doria Landi Pamfilj
- Luigi Ercolani
- Paolo Giuseppe Solaro
- Johann Casimir Häffelin
- Anne -Antoine -Jules de Clermont Tonnerre, Archbishop of Toulouse
- Francesco Bertazzoli
- Giovanni Francesco Falzacappa
- Antonio Pallotta
- Francesco Serlupi - Crescenzi
- Carlo Maria Pedicini
- Luigi Pandolfi
- Fabrizio Turriozzi
- Ercole Dandini
- Carlo Odescalchi
- Anne -Louis -Henri de La Fare
- Fabrizio Ruffo Dionigi Cardinal deacon
- Ercole Consalvi, Cardinal Secretary of State of Pius VII
- Giuseppe Albani
- Francesco Guidobono Cavalchini
- Giovanni Caccia Piatti
- Stanislao Sanseverino
- Pietro Vidoni
- Agostino Rivarola
- Cesare Guerrieri Gonzaga
- Antonio Frosini
- Tommaso Riario Sforza
Absent Cardinals
The following Cardinals did not appear for the conclave:
- Domenico Spinucci, Archbishop of Benevento
- Louis -François de Bausset Roquefort
- Rudolf Johannes Joseph Rainer von Habsburg-Lothringen
- Carlos da Cunha e Menezes, Patriarch of Lisbon