Conclave 1565-1566

The conclave 1565–1566 was convened on December 20, 1565 after the death of Pope Pius IV on December 9, 1565. It ended on January 7, 1566 with the election of the Dominican Antonio Michele Ghislieri, who called himself Pius V , as the 225th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church .

Course of the conclave

Cardinal Alessandro Farnese .

The conclave began on the morning of December 20, 1565 with the celebration of a Holy Spirit Mass by Cardinal Dean Francesco Pisani . Around noon the cardinals took the oath in the Cappella Paolina . At the same time, the bull In eligendis , in which Pope Pius IV changed the conclave in 1562, was read out .

Composition of the conclave

Cardinals in the conclave

Surname	country	Cardinal title	title	creation	Age
Francesco Pisani	Republic of Venice	Cardinal Bishop of Ostia e Velletri	Dean of the Holy Quorum	July 1, 1517 by Leo X.	71
Giovanni Gerolamo Morone	Duchy of Milan	Cardinal Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina	Vice Dean of the Holy Quorum	June 2, 1542 by Paul III.	56
Alessandro Farnese il Giovane	Duchy of Parma and Piacenza	Cardinal Bishop of Frascati and Cardinal Priest of San Lorenzo in Damaso in Commendam		December 18, 1534 by Paul III.	45
Cristoforo Madruzzo	Principality of Trento	Cardinal Bishop of Palestrina	Prince-Bishop of Trento and Brixen	June 2, 1542 by Paul III.	53
Tiberio Crispo	Papal States	Cardinal Bishop of Sabina	Apostolic Administrator of Sessa Aurunca	December 19, 1544 by Paul III.	67
Niccolò Caetani di Sermoneta	Papal States	Sant'Eustachio , titolo pro illa vice	Archbishop of Conza and Capua	December 22, 1536 by Paul III.	39
Ippolito II d'Este	Duchy of Ferrara	Santa Maria della Scala	Apostolic Administrator of Arles	December 20, 1538 by Paul III.	56
Giacomo Savelli	Papal States	Santa Maria in Cosmedin , titolo pro illa vice	Archbishop of Benevento,	December 19, 1539 by Paul III.	52
Giulio della Rovere	Duchy of Urbino	San Pietro in Vincoli , diaconia pro illa vice	Apostolic Administrator of Vicenza	July 27, 1547 by Paul III.	32
Innocenzo Ciocchi del Monte	Duchy of Parma and Piacenza	Santa Maria in Portico Octaviae		May 30, 1550 by Julius III.	33
Fulvio Giulio della Corgna , OSIo. Here.	Papal States	Sant'Angelo in Pescheria , titolo pro illa vice	Bishop of Perugia	November 20, 1551 by Julius III.	48
Giovanni Michele Saraceni	Kingdom of Naples	Santa Maria in Trastevere	Old Archbishop of Matera	November 20, 1551 by Julius III.	67
Giovanni Ricci	Duchy of Florence	Santi Vitale, Gervasio e Protasio	Old Archbishop of Montepulciano	November 20, 1551 by Julius III.	67
Giovanni Battista Cicala	Republic of Genoa	Sant'Agata alla Subburra , titolo pro hac vice	Apostolic Administrator of Sagone	November 20, 1551 by Julius III.	55
Luigi Conaro	Republic of Venice	San Marco	Apostolic Administrator of Trogir	November 20, 1551 by Julius III.	48
Girolamo Simoncelli	Papal States	Santi Cosma e Damiano	Former Bishop of Orvieto	December 22, 1553 by Julius III.	43
Scipione Rebiba	Kingdom of Sicily	Sant'Anastasia	Latin Patriarch of Constantinople Chamberlain of the Holy College of Cardinals	December 20, 1555 by Paul IV.	61
Jean Suau	Kingdom of France	Santa Prisca	Former Bishop of Mirepoix	December 20, 1555 by Paul IV.	62
Gianantonio Capizzuchi	Papal States	San Clemente	Bishop of Lodi	December 20, 1555 by Paul IV.	50
Antonio Michele Ghislieri OP elected to Pius V.	Duchy of Milan	Santa Maria sopra Minerva	Bishop of Mondovì , Grand Inquisitor	March 15, 1557 by Paul IV.	61
Clemente d'Olera , OFM	Republic of Genoa	Santa Maria in Aracoeli	Bishop of Foligno	March 15, 1557 by Paul IV.	64
Vitellozzo Vitelli	Papal States	Santa Maria in Via Lata	Camerlengo	March 15, 1557 by Paul IV.	34
Giovanni Antonio Serbelloni	Duchy of Milan	Santa Maria degli Angeli	Bishop of Novara	January 31, 1560 by Pius IV.	46
Charles Borromeo	Duchy of Milan	Santa Prassede	Archbishop of Milan	January 31, 1560 by Pius IV.	27
Ludovico Simonetta	Duchy of Milan	San Ciriaco alle Terme	Former Bishop of Pesaro	February 26, 1561 by Pius IV.	65
Markus Parakeet from Hohenems	Holy Roman Empire	San Giorgio in Velabro	Prince-Bishop of Constance	February 26, 1561 by Pius IV.	32
Francesco Gonzaga	Guastalla county	San Lorenzo in Lucina	Bishop of Mantova	February 26, 1561 by Pius IV.	27
Alfonso Gesualdo	Kingdom of Naples	Santa Cecilia	Archbishop of Conza	February 26, 1561 by Pius IV.	25th
Gianfrancesco Gambara	Holy Roman Empire	Santa Pudenziana	Chierico of the Apostolic Chamber	February 26, 1561 by Pius IV.	32
Bernardo Salviati	Duchy of Florence	San Simeone	Apostolic Administrator of Clermont	February 26, 1561 by Pius IV.	57
Pier Francesco Ferrero	Duchy of Savoy	Sant'Agnese in Agone	Apostolic Nuncio of Venice	February 26, 1561 by Pius IV.	55
Luigi d'Este	Duchy of Ferrara	Santa Lucia in Silice	Former Bishop of Vercelli	February 26, 1561 by Pius IV.	27
Ludovico Madruzzo	Principality of Trento	Sant'Onofrio	Bishop Coadjutor of Trento	February 26, 1561 by Pius IV.	33
Innico d'Avalos d'Aragona , OS	Kingdom of Naples	Sant'Adriano al Foro	Chancellor of the Kingdom of Naples	February 26, 1561 by Pius IV.	29
Francesco Pacheco de Villena	Kingdom of Spain	Santa Croce in Gerusalemme	Inquisitor General of Spain	February 26, 1561 by Pius IV.	57
Girolamo da Correggio	Papal States	Santo Stefano rotondo	Apostolic Nuncio	February 26, 1561 by Pius IV.	54
Ferdinando de 'Medici	Duchy of Florence	Santa Maria in Domnica		February 6, 1563 by Pius IV.	16
Marcantonio Colonna	Papal States	Santi XII Apostoli	Archbishop of Taranto	March 12, 1565 by Pius IV.	42
Tolomeo Gallio	Duchy of Milan	San Pancrazio	Archbishop of Manfredonia	March 12, 1565 by Pius IV.	38
Angelo Nicolini	Duchy of Florence	San Callisto	Archbishop of Pisa	March 12, 1565 by Pius IV.	60
Luigi Pisani	Republic of Venice	Cardinal priest without a title church	Apostolic Administrator of Padua	March 12, 1565 by Pius IV.	43
Zaccaria Dolfin	Republic of Venice	Santa Maria in Aquiro , titolo pro hac vice	Bishop of Hvar	March 12, 1565 by Pius IV.	38
Marcantonio Bobba	Margraviate of Montferrat	San Silvestro in Capite	Bishop of Aosta	March 12, 1565 by Pius IV.	65
Alessandro Sforza	Papal States	Santa Maria in Via	Bishop of Parma	March 12, 1565 by Pius IV.	31
Flavio Orsini	Papal States	Santi Marcellino e Pietro	Bishop of Spoleto	March 12, 1565 by Pius IV.	33
Francesco Alciati	Duchy of Milan	Santa Susanna	Bishop of Civitate	March 12, 1565 by Pius IV.	43
Francesco Abbondio Castiglioni	Duchy of Milan	San Nicola , Diakonie pro illa vice	Bishop of Bobbio	March 12, 1565 by Pius IV.	42
Guido Luca Ferrero	Duchy of Savoy	Sant'Eufemia	Bishop of Vercelli	March 12, 1565 by Pius IV.	28
Benedetto Lomellini	Republic of Genoa	Santa Sabina	Bishop of Luni-Sarzana	March 12, 1565 by Pius IV.	48
Guglielmo Sirleto	Kingdom of Naples	San Lorenzo in Panisperna	Apostolic protonotary	March 12, 1565 by Pius IV.	51
Gabriele Paleotti	Papal States	Santi Giovanni e Paolo	Auditor of the Roman Rota	March 12, 1565 by Pius IV.	43
Francesco Crasso	Duchy of Milan	Cardinal priest without a title church	Governor of Bologna	March 12, 1565 by Pius IV.	65

Absent cardinals

Surname	country	Cardinal title	title	creation	Age
Otto Truchsess von Waldburg	Holy Roman Empire	Albano	Prince-Bishop of Augusta	December 19, 1544 by Paul III.	51
Georges d'Armagnac	Kingdom of France	San Nicola in Carcere , titolo pro illa vice	Apostolic Administrator of Tolosa , Papal legate in Avignone	December 19, 1544 by Paul III.	64
Francisco Mendoza Bobadilla	Kingdom of Spain	Sant'Eusebio	Archbishop of Burgos	December 19, 1544 by Paul III.	57
Enrico I del Portogallo	Kingdom of Portugal	Santi Quattro Coronati	Archbishop of Lisbona , Reggente del Portogallo	December 16, 1545 by Paul III.	53
Carlo di Lorena-Guisa	Kingdom of France	Sant'Apollinare alle Terme	Archbishop of Reims	July 27, 1547 by Paul III.	41
Carlo di Borbone-Vendome	Kingdom of France	San Crisogono	Archbishop of Rouen	January 9, 1548 by Paul III.	42
Luigi I di Lorena-Guisa	Kingdom of France	San Tommaso in Parione , diaconia pro illa vice	Former Bishop of Albi	December 22, 1553 da Giulio III	38
Gian Bernardino Scotti , CR	Papal States	San Matteo in Merulana	Bishop of Piacenza	December 20, 1555 by Paul IV.	87
Lorenzo Strozzi	Duchy of Florence	Santa Balbina	Apostolic Administrator of Albi	March 15, 1557 by Paul IV.	52
Stanislaw Hozjusz	Kingdom of Poland	San Teodoro , titolo pro illa vice	Archbishop of Warmia	February 26, 1561 by Pius IV.	61
Philibert Babou de La Bourdaisière	Kingdom of France	Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti	Apostolic Administrator of Auxerre	February 26, 1561 by Pius IV.	52
Marcantonio Amulio	Republic of Venice	San Marcello , diaconia pro illa vice	Bishop of Rieti	February 26, 1561 by Pius IV.	59
Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle	Kingdom of France	San Bartolomeo all'Isola	Archbishop of Mechelen	February 26, 1561 by Pius IV.	48
Prospero Santacroce	Papal States	Cardinal priest without a title church	Papal legate in France	March 12, 1565 by Pius IV.	51
Ugo Boncompagni	Papal States	San Sisto	Legato a latere in Spain	March 12, 1565 by Pius IV.	63
Alessandro Crivelli	Duchy of Milan	Cardinal deacon without title deacon	Bishop of Cariati	March 12, 1565 by Pius IV.	51
Antoine de Créqui	Kingdom of France	Cardinal deacon without title deacon	Bishop of Amiens	March 12, 1565 by Pius IV.	34
Giovanni Francesco Commendone	Republic of Venice	Cardinal deacon without title deacon	Papal legate in Polonia	March 12, 1565 by Pius IV.	41