Conclave 1829
In the conclave of 1829 after the death of Pope Leo XII. Cardinal Francesco Saverio Castiglioni was elected. He took the Pope's name Pius VIII.
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Pope Leo XII. died after a six-year pontificate on February 10th, 1829. During the vacancy of the Sedis , Cardinal Pietro Francesco Galleffi led the official business as Camerlengo . Two weeks after the death of the Pope, Cardinal Dean Giulio Maria della Somaglia called the cardinals together for a conclave. A few cardinals arrived in Rome after the conclave had begun. On March 31, more than a month later, Francesco Saverio Castiglioni finally achieved the necessary two-thirds majority and was able to take up his new office as Pius VIII.
Cardinals
After the death of Leo XII. there were 59 cardinals. One cardinal, Giovanni Francesco Marazzini Visconti , died on February 18, 1829. Of the 58 cardinals, 50 took part in the conclave. As papabile were Giuseppe Albani , Emmanuele De Gregorio , Francesco Saverio Castiglioni, Carlo Odescalchi , Bartolomeo Pacca and Giacomo Giustiniani .
Participating cardinals
The following cardinals took part in the conclave:
- Giulio Maria della Somaglia , Cardinal Dean
- Bartolomeo Pacca
- Pietro Francesco Galleffi
- Tommaso Arezzo
- Francesco Saverio Castiglioni (elected Pope Pius VIII)
- Francesco Bertazzoli
- Giuseppe Firrao , cardinal proto-priest
- Luigi Ruffo Scilla
- Joseph Fesch
- Carlo Oppizzoni
- Pietro Gravina
- Giuseppe Morozzo Della Rocca
- Benedetto Naro
- Emmanuele De Gregorio
- Giorgio Doria Pamfilj Landi
- Fabrizio Sceberras Testaferrata
- Anne-Antoine-Jules de Clermont-Tonnerre
- Giovanni Francesco Falzacappa
- Antonio Pallotta
- Carlo Maria Pedicini
- Ercole Dandini
- Carlo Odescalchi
- Giacinto Placido Zurla
- Anne-Louis-Henri de La Fare
- Giovanni Battista Bussi
- Bonaventure Gazola
- Karl Kajetan von Gaisruck
- Ludovico Micara
- Gustav Maximilian von Croÿ
- Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari , Prefect of the Congregation De Propaganda Fide
- Jean-Baptist-Marie-Anne-Antoine de Latil
- Pietro Caprano
- Giacomo Giustiniani
- Vincenzo Macchi
- Giacomo Filippo Fransoni
- Benedetto Colonna Barberini di Sciarra
- Giovanni Antonio Benvenuti
- Ignazio Nasalli-Ratti
- Joachim-Jean-Xavier d'Isoard
- Antonio Domenico Gamberini
- Giuseppe Albani , Cardinal Protodeacon
- Giovanni Caccia-Piatti
- Pietro Vidoni
- Agostino Rivarola
- Cesare Guerrieri Gonzaga
- Antonio Frosini
- Tommaso Riario Sforza
- Tommaso Bernetti
- Belisario Cristaldi
- Juan Francisco Marco y Catalan
Cardinals not participating
The following cardinals did not take part in the conclave:
- Cesare Brancadoro , Archbishop of Fermo
- Francesco Cesarei Leoni
- Rudolph Johannes Joseph Rainer of Austria
- Patrício da Silva , Patriarch of Lisbon
- Teresio Maria Carlo Vittorio Ferrero della Marmora
- Pedro Inguanzo y Rivero
- Francisco Javier de Cienfuegos y Jovellanos
- Alexander Rudnay