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Cardinal electors for the 1914 papal conclave

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Cardinal Giacomo della Chiesa, Archbishop of Bologna, was elected Pope and adopted the name of Benedict XV.
Location of Cardinal Electors
Country Number of Electors
Italy 32
France 6
Austria-Hungary, Spain 4
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 3
German Empire, Portugal 2
Belgium, Brazil, Netherlands, United States 1

Of the 65 cardinals eligible to participate, 57 served as cardinal electors in the 1914 papal conclave. Arranged by region and within each alphabetically. Eight did not participate in the 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]

Italy

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  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, Secretary of College of Cardinals
  17. Serafino Vannutelli, Dean of the College of Cardinals
  18. Vincenzo Vannutelli, Prefect of Apostolic Signatura
  19. Bartolomeo Bacilieri, Bishop of Verona
  20. Gaetano Bisleti, Grand Prior of the Sovereign Order of Malta
  21. Giulio Boschi, Archbishop of Ferrara
  22. Aristide Cavallari, Patriarch of Venice
  23. Giacomo della Chiesa, Archbishop of Bologna (was elected Pope and chose the name Benedict XV)
  24. Diomede Falconio, OFM, Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri[a]
  25. Andrea Carlo Ferrari, Archbishop of Milan
  26. Giuseppe Francica-Nava di Bontifé, Archbishop of Catania
  27. Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, Nuncio emeritus to Austria-Hungary
  28. Alessandro Lualdi, Archbishop of Palermo
  29. Pietro Maffi, Archbishop of Pisa
  30. Basilio Pompili, Vicar General of Rome
  31. Agostino Richelmy, Archbishop of Turin
  32. Antonio Vico, Nuncio to Spain

France

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  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

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  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

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  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 of Great Britain and Ireland

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  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

German Empire

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  1. Franziskus von Bettinger, Archbishop of Münich und Freising
  2. Felix von Hartmann, Archbishop of Cologne

Portugal

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

Belgium

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  1. Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Archbishop of Mechelen

Brazil

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

The Netherlands

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

United States

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  1. John Murphy Farley, Archbishop of New York

Notes

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

References

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  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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