At a ceremony in St. Peter’s Basilica March 12, 1622, Pope Gregory XV formally recognized the holiness of Sts. Teresa of Avila, Ignatius of Loyola, Isidore of Madrid (also known as Isidore the ...

Fifteen have become Pope, from Gregory XV (1621-23) to Paul VI. Every year 30 to 40 of its alumni become bishops. Fully two-thirds of the church’s seminary professors of theology have taken some ...

The longest conclave of the past 200 years happened in 1831, when it took 51 days to elect Pope Gregory XVI. U.S. & World. Trump Administration 27 mins ago.

In the 13th century, it took almost three years — 1,006 days to be exact — to choose Pope Clement IV’s successor, making it… The conclave to elect Pope Gregory was the longest conclave in ...

The secret vote that elected Pope Gregory X lasted from November 1268 to September 1271. ... Pope John XII was just 18 when he was elected in 955. The oldest popes were Pope Celestine III ...

The election of Pope Gregory X in 1271 took two years and nine months. The cardinals had gathered in the city of Viterbo, about 50 miles north of Rome, where Pope Clement IV died in 1268.