Conclave 1823
The conclave of 1823 met from September 2nd to 28th, 1823. It elected Cardinal Vicar Annibale Sermattei della Genga as Pope . He took the Pope's name Leo XII. on.
General and election process
After the death of Pope Pius VII on August 20, 1823, Cardinal Dean Giulio Maria della Somaglia called the cardinals together for a conclave.
During the Sedis vacancy , Bartolomeo Pacca carried out official business as Camerlengo .
The papabili were Francesco Saverio Castiglioni , who was supported by the more political cardinals, and Antonio Gabriele Severoli , the candidate of the Zelanti . Cardinal Giuseppe Albani however presented the veto of the Austrian Emperor Franz I against Severoli.
In the conclave, Severoli, Castiglioni and della Somaglia were initially ahead. Nevertheless, none of them could achieve the necessary two-thirds majority . The Zealots finally agreed on Cardinal Sermattei della Genga, who then also became Leo XII. could ascend the papal throne .
Cardinals
During the sedis vacancy there were 53 cardinals, 49 of whom attended the conclave. 47 of the 49 participants were created by Pius VII, two by Pius VI.
Attendees
The following cardinals took part in the conclave:
- Giulio Maria della Somaglia , Cardinal Dean
- Bartolomeo Pacca , Cardinal Subdean
- Giuseppe Spina
- Pietro Francesco Galleffi
- Tommaso Arezzo
- Francesco Saverio Castiglioni
- Giuseppe Firrao , cardinal proto-priest
- Luigi Ruffo Scilla
- Cesare Brancadoro
- Carlo Francesco Maria Caselli
- Joseph Fesch
- Carlo Oppizzoni
- Annibale Sermattei della Genga (elected to Leo XII)
- Pietro Gravina
- Antonio Gabriele Severoli
- Giuseppe Morozzo Della Rocca
- Fabrizio Sceberras Testaferrata
- Benedetto Naro
- Francesco Cesarei Leoni
- Dionisio Bardaxí y Azara
- Antonio Lamberto Rusconi
- Emmanuele De Gregorio
- Giorgio Doria Pamfilj Landi
- Luigi Ercolani
- Paolo Giuseppe Solaro
- Johann Casimir Häffelin
- Anne-Antoine-Jules de Clermont-Tonnerre , Archbishop of Toulouse
- Francesco Bertazzoli
- Giovanni Francesco Falzacappa
- Antonio Pallotta
- Francesco Serlupi-Crescenzi
- Carlo Maria Pedicini
- Luigi Pandolfi
- Fabrizio Turriozzi
- Ercole Dandini
- Carlo Odescalchi
- Giacinto Placido Zurla
- Anne-Louis-Henri de La Fare
- Fabrizio Dionigi Ruffo , cardinal protodeacon
- Ercole Consalvi , Cardinal Secretary of State of Pius VII.
- Giuseppe Albani
- Francesco Guidobono Cavalchini
- Giovanni Caccia-Piatti
- Stanislao Sanseverino
- Pietro Vidoni
- Agostino Rivarola
- Cesare Guerrieri Gonzaga
- Antonio Frosini
- Tommaso Riario Sforza
Absent cardinals
The following cardinals did not appear at the conclave:
- Domenico Spinucci , Archbishop of Benevento
- Louis-François de Bausset-Roquefort
- Rudolf Johannes Joseph Rainer of Habsburg-Lothringen
- Carlos da Cunha e Menezes , Patriarch of Lisbon