Conclave 1846
The conclave of 1846 met from June 14th to 16th, 1846 in the Quirinal Palace , after Pope Gregory XVI. died on June 1, 1846.
course
The conclave, which began on June 14, was attended by 50 of the 62 cardinals . Almost all of them (49) were Italian. They mostly came from the former States Papal States , Kingdom of the Two Sicily, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany or the Italian regions of Austria. In the fourth ballot, Cardinal Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti was elected, who had previously been Bishop of Imola and named Pius IX as Pope . assumed. The Archbishop of Milan , Karl Kajetan Cardinal von Gaisruck , arrived after the last ballot to announce the veto of the Austrian Emperor Ferdinand I against the election of Mastai-Ferretti. Gaisruck came too late, however, so that the new Pope could also take office.
During the Sedis vacancy these offices were held by the following cardinals:
- Camerlengo : Tommaso Riario Sforza
- Cardinal Dean : Lodovico Micara
- Cardinal Sub- Dean : Vincenzo Macchi
- Cardinal Vicar of the Diocese of Rome : Costantino Patrizi Naro
- Chamberlain of the Holy College of Cardinals : Pietro Ostini
- Cardinal protodeacon : Tommaso Riario Sforza
Attendees
The following cardinals took part in the conclave:
- Papal States : Lodovico Micara
- Papal States : Vincenzo Macchi
- Kingdom of the Two Sicilies : Tommaso Riario Sforza , Camerlengo
- Papal States : Pietro Ostini
- Tuscany : Costantino Patrizi Naro , Cardinal Vicar
- Sardinia : Luigi Lambruschini
- Papal States : Mario Mattei
- Tuscany : Castruccio Castracane degli Antelminelli
- Austria : Carlo Oppizzoni , Archbishop of Bologna , cardinal proto-priest
- Sardinia : Giacomo Filippo Fransoni
- Papal States : Benedetto Barberini Colonna di Sciarra
- Kingdom of the Two Sicilies : Francesco Serra
- Sardinia : Ugo Pietro Spinola
- Sardinia : Giacomo Luigi Brignole
- Papal States : Paolo Polidori
- Papal States : Giuseppe Alberghini
- Austria : Ambrogio Bianchi
- Papal States : Gabriele Sermattei della Genga
- Sardinia : Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso
- Austria : Angelo Mai
- Papal States : Chiarissimo Falconieri Mellini , Archbishop of Ravenna
- Papal States : Giovanni Soglia Ceroni
- Papal States : Antonio Francesco Orioli
- Papal States : Giuseppe Mezzofanti
- Papal States : Antonio Tosti
- Papal States : Filippo De Angelis
- Papal States : Gabriele Ferretti
- United Kingdom / Kingdom of the Two Sicilies : Charles Januarius Acton
- Kingdom of the Two Sicilies : Ferdinando Maria Pignatelli
- Papal States : Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti , Bishop of Imola (. To Pope Pius IX selected)
- Papal States : Gaspare Bernardo Pianetti
- Papal States : Luigi Vannicelli Casoni
- Papal States : Tommaso Pasquale Gizzi
- Papal States : Lodovico Altieri
- Tuscany : Cosimo Barnaba Corsi
- Papal States : Antonio Maria Cadolini
- Papal States : Antonio Maria Cagiano
- Papal States : Niccola Paracciani Clarelli
- Austria : Fabio Maria Asquini
- Kingdom of the Two Sicilies : Domenico Carafa della Spina , Archbishop of Benevento
- Tuscany : Giacomo Piccolomini
- Kingdom of the Two Sicilies : Sisto Riario Sforza , Archbishop of Naples
- Papal States : Lorenzo Simonetti
- Papal States : Tommaso Bernetti , Vice-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church
- Papal States : Ludovico Gazzoli
- Sardinia : Adriano Fieschi
- Papal States : Luigi Ciacchi
- Papal States : Giuseppe Ugolini
- Saxony / Papal States : Francesco Saverio Massimo
- Papal States : Giovanni Serafini
Absent cardinals
The following cardinals did not appear at the conclave:
- Austria : Karl Kajetan von Gaisruck , Archbishop of Milan (appeared after the conclave to present the veto of the Austrian emperor)
- Austria : Giacomo Monico , Patriarch of Venice
- Spain : Francisco Javier de Cienfuegos y Jovellanos , Archbishop of Seville
- Sardinia : Placido Maria Tadini , Archbishop of Genoa
- Belgium : Engelbert Sterckx , Archbishop of Mechlin-Brussels
- France : Hugues-Robert-Jean-Charles de la Tour d'Auvergne , Bishop of Arras
- France : Louis-Jacques-Maurice de Bonald , Archbishop of Lyon
- Austria : Friedrich Johann Jacob Celestin von Schwarzenburg , Archbishop of Salzburg
- Kingdom of the Two Sicilies : Francesco di Paola Villadicani , Archbishop of Messina
- Austria : Ignazio Giovanni Cadolini , Archbishop of Ferrara
- Portugal : Guilherme Henriques de Carvalho , Patriarch of Lisbon
- France : Joseph Bernet , Archbishop of Aix
source
- Conclave of June 14 to 16, 1846. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website, English)