Previously, Sean was Vox’s weekend editor. The Catholic Church has a new pope, and for the first time, he is an American. Pope Leo XIV was elected on Thursday, succeeding Pope Francis ...

After that marathon conclave, Pope Gregory X was finally elected in September of 1271. There is no way to predict how long a conclave will take, but guidance can perhaps be taken from recent history.

The longest conclave on record dragged on for nearly three years. Pope Gregory X was finally elected in September of 1271 after about 1,000 days.

The pope it elected, however — pope Gregory X — obviously came away from this experience thinking it was something more cardinals should go through. In 1274, he issued the papal bull Ubi ...

The pomp and ceremony of a papal conclave — the flutter of cardinals gathering in their red robes, the crowds at the Vatican awaiting the white smoke that proceeds the proclamation from a ...

It was Pope Gregory X, who was the head of the Church in 1792, who made the decision to lock all cardinal electors in the same room (cum clave: with a key) until a Pope is selected. While the ...

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Among the group is former Atlanta archbishop Wilton Gregory, who is expected to participate in the papal conclave, the assembly of cardinals that gather to elect a new pope after a pontiff dies or ...

The longest conclave of the past 200 years happened in 1831, when it took 51 days to elect Pope Gregory XVI. The longest took place in the 13th century, before conclaves were formalized ...

In 1045, Benedict IX sold the papacy to his godfather, Giovanni Graziano, who took the name Pope Gregory VI. His papacy was short-lived. By 1046, three men - Benedict, Sylvester III, and Gregory ...

Benedict IX resigned in May 1045 and sold the papal office to his godfather, Pope Gregory VI - a transaction that sparked significant outrage. This exchange backfired. Gregory VI was soon deposed ...

In the 13th century, for example, Pope Gregory X introduced strict regulations to prevent unduly long elections. Pope Gregory X brought in the rules to prevent a repeat of his own experience.