Conclave 1740
The conclave of 1740 occurred after the death of Pope Clement XII. († February 6, 1740 ) and met from February 19, 1740 to August 17, 1740. It elected Benedict XIV as Pope.
College of Cardinals
Attendees
The following cardinals took part in the conclave:
- Pietro Ottoboni , Cardinal Bishop of Ostia e Velletri , Cardinal Dean
- Tommaso Ruffo , Cardinal Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina , Cardinal Subdean
- Annibale Albani , Cardinal Bishop of Sabina
- Giambattista Altieri , iuniore, Cardinal Bishop of Palestrina
- Lodovico Pico della Mirandola , Cardinal Bishop of Albano
- Pier Marcellino Corradini , Cardinal Bishop of Frascati
- Armand-Gaston-Maximilien de Rohan , Bishop of Strasbourg
- Giulio Alberoni
- Thomas Philippe Wallrad d'Hénin-Liétard d'Alsace-Boussu de Chimay , Archbishop of Mechelen
- Luis Antonio Belluga y Moncada , CO
- Vincenzo Petra
- Niccolò Coscia
- Angelo Maria Quirini OSBCas , Bishop of Brescia
- Francesco Antonio Finy
- Prospero Lambertini , Archbishop of Bologna , elected Pope as Benedict XIV
- Niccolò Maria Lercari
- Sigismund von Kollonitz Archbishop of Vienna
- Philip Ludwig von Sinzendorf , Bishop of Győr
- Vincenzo Ludvico Gotti OP
- Leandro Porzia OSBCas, Bishop of Bergamo
- Pierluigi Carafa iuniore
- Giuseppe Accoramboni
- Camillo Cibo
- Francesco Borghese
- Carlo Vincenzo Ferreri OP, Bishop of Vercelli
- Bartolomeo Massei
- Vincenzo Bichi
- Giuseppe Firrao , Archbishop, Bishop of Aversa
- Antonio Saverio Gentili
- Giovanni Antonio Guadagni OCD , Bishop of Arezzo
- Troiano Acquaviva d'Aragona
- Domenico Riviera
- Marcello Passeri
- Pompeio Aldrovandi
- Pietro Maria Pieri OSM
- Giacomo Lanfredini
- Giuseppe Spinelli , Archbishop of Naples
- Joseph Dominikus von Lamberg , Bishop of Passau
- Henri Oswald de La Tour d'Auvergne , Archbishop of Vienne
- Raniero D'Elci , Archbishop of Ferrara
- Carlo Rezzonico seniore
- Domenico Passionei
- Silvio Valenti Gonzaga , Legate in Bologna
- Gaetano Stampa , Archbishop of Milan
- Pierre-Guérin de Tencin , Archbishop of Embrun
- Carlo Maria Marini
- Alessandro Albani O.S.Io.Hieros.
- Niccolò del Giudice
- Neri Maria Corsini
- Bartolomeo Ruspoli
- Agapito Mosca
- Giovanni Battista Spinola
- Marcellino Corio
- Prospero Colonna
- Carlo Maria Sacripante
Absent cardinals
The following cardinals did not attend the conclave:
- Lorenzo Altieri
- Nuno da Cunha e Ataíde
- Melchior de Polignac
- Benedetto Erba-Odescalchi
- Léon Potier des Gesvres
- Damian Hugo Philipp von Schönborn , Bishop of Speyer
- André Hercule de Fleury
- João da Mota e Silva
- Luis Antonio Jaime de Borbon y Farnesio
- Tomás de Almeida , Patriarch of Lisbon
- Gaspar de Molina y Oviedo OESA , Bishop of Málaga
- Jan Aleksander Lipski , Bishop of Krakow
course
Since Pope Clement XII. was blind and bedridden for almost all of his pontificate, the Catholic powers made arrangements for his successor at an early stage. When the Pope's imminent death had to be expected in October 1739, the Council of Ministers in Vienna had sent instructions to Cardinal Giudice and Minister Harrach in Rome and Emperor Charles VI. the imperial cardinals Lamberg , Sinzendorf , Kollonitsch and Schönborn were urged to leave quickly (and charged them an expense of 12,000 guilders ) because it was feared that the cardinal nepot Neri Corsini would insist that the conclave begin soon in order to exclude cardinals from abroad from the papal election.
The conclave began on February 19, 1740. At that time, only 32 of the 68 living cardinals were present; by April another 24 had arrived. What was novel and characteristic of this conclave was that the usual fractions of the electoral college joined together to form two large unions, which kept themselves in balance with smaller shifts throughout the course. One union was the French and Austrians, who joined forces with the “young” cardinals, mainly creatures of Clement XII, under the leadership of Neri Corsini. The opposing party was formed by Spain, Naples and Tuscany with the "old" cardinals around Camerlengo Annibale Albani . Initially, the Conprotector of the German Nation, Cardinal Niccolò del Giudice, was entrusted with the management of the imperial secretum (the representation of the imperial interests in the conclave) , later the Imperial and Hereditary Protector Cardinal Kollonitsch, who only left Vienna on February 20, 1740, was entrusted.
After the conclave dragged on for more than half a year, Cardinal Prosper Lambertini was elected surprisingly on August 17, 1740 , who out of solidarity with Benedict XIII. , who had elevated him to cardinal, took the name of Pope Benedict XIV.
literature
- Rudolf Weiß: The Diocese of Passau under Cardinal Joseph Dominikus von Lamberg (1723–1761). Sankt Ottilien: EOS-Verlag, 1979, pp. 142–144. ISBN 3-88096-121-2
Web links
- Conclave of February 18 - August 17, 1740 (Benedict XIV). In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed June 19, 2018.
- Entry for Conclave 1740 at catholic-hierarchy.org , accessed June 19, 2018