Papal conclave, 1829

In the conclave of 1829, after the death of Pope Leo XII. Cardinal Francesco Saverio Castiglioni elected. He took the name of Pope Pius VIII.

Course

Pope Leo XII. died after six years of pontificate on February 10, 1829. During the period of vacancy led Cardinal Pietro Francesco Galleffi as Camerlengo into office. Two weeks after the death of the Pope called Cardinal Dean Giulio Maria della Somaglia the Cardinals together for the conclave. Even after the beginning of the conclave met some cardinals in Rome. On March 31, more than a month later, finally reaching Francesco Saverio Castiglioni the required two -thirds majority and was able to Pius VIII assume his new office.

Cardinals

After the death of Leo XII. there were 59 cardinals. A cardinal, Giovanni Francesco Marazzini Visconti, died on February 18, 1829. Of the 58 cardinals finally took part in the conclave 50. As papabile were Giuseppe Albani, Emmanuele de Gregorio, Francesco Saverio Castiglioni, Carlo Odescalchi, Pacca Bartolomeo and Giacomo Giustiniani.

Participating Cardinals

The following cardinals took part in the conclave:

  • Giulio Maria della Somaglia, Cardinal Dean
  • Bartolomeo Pacca
  • Pietro Francesco Galleffi
  • Tommaso Arezzo
  • Francesco Saverio Castiglioni ( to Pope Pius VIII selected)
  • Francesco Bertazzoli
  • Giuseppe Firrao, Cardinal Proto priest
  • Luigi Ruffo Scilla
  • Joseph Fesch
  • Carlo Oppizzoni
  • Pietro Gravina
  • Morozzo Giuseppe Della Rocca
  • Benedetto Naro
  • Emmanuele de Gregorio
  • Giorgio Doria Landi Pamfilj
  • Fabrizio Sceberras Testaferrata
  • Anne -Antoine -Jules de Clermont Tonnerre
  • Giovanni Francesco Falzacappa
  • Antonio Pallotta
  • Carlo Maria Pedicini
  • Ercole Dandini
  • Carlo Odescalchi
  • Anne -Louis -Henri de La Fare
  • Giovanni Battista Bussi
  • Bonaventura Gazola
  • Karl Cajetan of Gaisruck
  • Ludovico Micara
  • Gustav Maximilian von Croy
  • Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari, Prefect of the Congregation De Propaganda Fide
  • Jean- Baptist Marie -Anne- Antoine de Latil
  • Pietro Caprano
  • Giacomo Giustiniani
  • Vincenzo Macchi
  • Giacomo Filippo Fransoni
  • Colonna Barberini Benedetto di Sciarra
  • Giovanni Antonio Benvenuti
  • Ignazio Nasalli - Ratti
  • Joachim -Jean -Xavier d' Isoard
  • Antonio Domenico Gamberini
  • Giuseppe Albani, Cardinal deacon
  • Giovanni Caccia Piatti
  • Pietro Vidoni
  • Agostino Rivarola
  • Cesare Guerrieri Gonzaga
  • Antonio Frosini
  • Tommaso Riario Sforza
  • Tommaso Bernetti
  • Belisario Cristaldi
  • Juan Francisco Marco y Catalán

Not participating cardinals

The following took part in the conclave cardinals not:

  • Cesare Brancadoro, Archbishop of Fermo
  • Francesco Leoni Cesarei
  • Rudolf Johannes Joseph Rainer of Austria
  • Patrício da Silva, Patriarch of Lisbon
  • Teresio Maria Carlo Vittorio Ferrero della Marmora
  • Pedro Inguanzo y Rivero
  • Francisco Javier de Cienfuegos Jovellanos y
  • Alexander Rudnay
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