Conclave 1758

The conclave of 1758 met after the death of Pope Benedict XIV († May 3, 1758) and met from May 15, 1758 to July 6, 1758. It lasted 52 days and elected Clement XIII. to the Pope.

College of Cardinals

Pope Benedict XIV.

Pope Clement XIII.

When Pope Benedict XIV died, the college of cardinals numbered 55 cardinals.

Attendees

The 45 cardinals attending the conclave were:

• Raniero d'Elci , Cardinal Bishop of Ostia and Velletri , Dean of the College of Cardinals
• Giovanni Antonio Guadagni , OCD , Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina , Subdean of the College of Cardinals
• Francesco Scipione Maria Borghese , Bishop of Albano
• Giuseppe Spinelli , Bishop of Palestrina
• Carlo Maria Sacripante , Bishop of Frascati
• Joaquín Fernández Portocarrero , Bishop of Sabina
• Carlo Rezzonico the Elder , Bishop of Padua , as Clement XIII. elected pope
• Domenico Passionei , Papal Librarian and Secretary
• Camillo Paolucci
• Carlo Alberto Guidobono Cavalchini , Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops and Regulators
• Giacomo Oddi , Bishop of Viterbo-Toscanella
• Federico Marcello Lante
• Marcello Crescenzi , Archbishop of Ferrara
• Giorgio Doria
• Giuseppe Pozzobonelli , Archbishop of Milan
• Girolamo de Bardi
• Fortunato Tamburini , OSBCas, Prefect of the Congregation for Rites
• Daniele Delfino , Patriarch-Archbishop of Udine
• Carlo Vittorio Amedeo delle Lanze
• Henry Benedict Mary Clement Stuart of York , Archpriest of the Vatican Basilica
• Giuseppe Maria Feroni
• Fabrizio Serbelloni , Papal Legate in Bologna
• Giovanni Francesco Stoppani
• Luca Melchiore Tempi
• Carlo Francesco Durini , Bishop of Pavia
• Cosimo Imperiali
• Vincenzo Malvezzi , Archbishop of Bologna
• Clemente Argenvilliers , Prefect of the Congregation for the Council of Trent
• Antonio Andrea Galli
• Antonino Sersale , Archbishop of Naples
• Alberico Archinto
• Giovanni Battista Rovero , Archbishop of Turin
• Paul d'Albert de Luynes , Archbishop of Sens
• Étienne-René Potier de Gesvres , Bishop of Beauvais
• Franz Konrad Kasimir Ignaz von Rodt , Bishop of Constance
• Alessandro Albani
• Neri Maria Corsini , Archpriest of the Lateran Basilica and Secretary of the Holy Office
• Agapito Mosca
• Girolamo Colonna di Sciarra , Camerlengo of the Roman Church
• Prospero Colonna de Sciarra
• Domenico Orsini d'Aragona
• Giovanni Francesco Albani
• Flavio Chigi the Younger
• Giovanni Francesco Banchieri , Papal Legate in Ferrara
• Luigi Maria Torrigiani

Cardinals not participating in the conclave

The following cardinals could not take part in the conclave:

• Thomas Philippe Wallrad d'Hénin-Liétard d'Alsace-Boussu de Chimay , Archbishop of Mechelen
• Joseph Dominikus von Lamberg , Bishop of Passau
• Johann Theodor von Bayern , Bishop of Liège , administrator of Freising and Regensburg
• Álvaro Eugenio Mendoza Caamaño y Sotomayor , Patriarch of the West Indies
• Giovanni Battista Mesmer
• José Manoel da Câmara , Patriarch of Lisbon
• Luis Antonio Fernández de Córdoba , Archbishop of Toledo
• Nicholas de Saulx-Tavannes , Archbishop of Rouen
• Francisco de Solís Folch de Cardona , Archbishop of Seville
• Francisco de Saldanha da Gama

course

When the conclave met on May 15, 1758, there were 45 participants, the number of which fell to 44 in the end after Cardinal Bardi left the conclave. Only ten cardinals remained absent from the election, of which Giovanni Battista Mesmer did not participate for health reasons, although he was in Rome at the time. The Patriarch of Lisbon, José Manoel da Câmara, died shortly after the conclave. The venue of the conclave was the Vatican.

Against the election of Carlo Alberto Guidobono Cavalchini put the French King Louis XV. his veto.

When choosing Clemens XIII. there should have been considerable abstentions.

literature

• Secret and reliable story of the conclave and the election of the six last Popes, as: Benedict XIII. Clement XII. Benedict XIV. Clement XIII. Clement XIV. And Pius the VIth . Sonnleithner, 1782, p. 11.

Web links

• Conclave of May 15 - July 6, 1758. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed November 20, 2014.
• Entry for Conclave 1758 at catholic-hierarchy.org , accessed January 21, 2017
• Pope Clement XIII. In: Vaticanhistory. Retrieved June 25, 2015 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Secret and reliable story of the conclave and the election of the six last Popes, as: Benedict XIII. Clement XII. Benedict XIV. Clement XIII. Clement XIV. And Pius the VIth . Sonnleithner, 1782, p. 11, online in the Google book search