Conclave 1939
The 1939 conclave met in the period from March 1 to March 2, 1939. It had become necessary, after Pope Pius XI. died on February 10 of the same year. It ended with the election of Cardinal Secretary of State and Camerlengo Eugenio Pacelli (on his 63rd birthday) as the new head of the Roman Catholic Church , who was named Pius XII. assumed.
procedure
After the death of Pius XI. Cardinal Dean Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte summoned the cardinals for a conclave. With only three rounds of voting, it was the shortest conclave of the 20th century . Each of the 62 cardinals eligible to vote was present. How clear the election of Cardinal Pacelli as Pope was can be seen from the fact that his election lasted only one day.
Pacelli was the first Cardinal Secretary of State since 1667 of Clement IX. who was elected Pope, the first Camerlengo since Leo XIII. in 1878, was the first member of the Curia since Gregory XVI. in 1831 and the first native Roman since Clement X in 1670.
Participating cardinals
Among the 62 cardinals were three German cardinals and one from Austria (at that time part of the National Socialist German Empire). The number of non-European cardinals had increased to seven.
Most of the cardinals were made by the late Pius XI. created. Only ten cardinals had already participated in the 1922 conclave .
- Note: (AUT) = counts as Austrian today
- Italy : Federico Cattani Amadori
- Italy : Alessio Ascalesi
- Spain : Francisco de Asís Vidal y Barraquer
- France : Alfred Baudrillart
- Italy : Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte
- German Empire : Adolf Bertram
- Italy : Pietro Fumasoni Biondi
- Italy : Pietro Boetto
- Italy : Tommaso Pio Boggiani
- Italy : Nicola Canali
- Portugal : Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira
- Argentina : Santiago Luis Copello
- Italy : Giovanni Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano
- Italy : Elia Dalla Costa
- Italy : Carlo Cremonesi
- Italy : Angelo Dolci
- Italy : Camillo Caccia Dominioni
- United States : Denis Dougherty
- Italy : Enrico Gasparri
- France : Pierre-Marie Gerlier
- German Empire : Michael von Faulhaber
- Italy : Maurilio Fossati
- United Kingdom : Arthur Hinsley
- Poland : August Hlond
- German Empire : Theodor Innitzer (AUT)
- Italy : Domenico Jorio
- Czechoslovakia : Karel Kašpar
- Italy : Vincenzo Lapuma
- Italy : Lorenzo Lauri
- Italy : Luigi Lavitrano
- France : Achille Liénart
- Ireland : Joseph MacRory
- Italy : Luigi Maglione
- Italy : Domenico Mariani
- Italy : Francesco Marmaggi
- Italy : Massimo Massimi
- Italy : Giovanni Mercati
- United States : George Mundelein
- United States : William Henry O'Connell
- Italy : Eugenio Pacelli (elected Pope Pius XII)
- Italy : Ermenegildo Pellegrinetti
- Italy : Adeodato Giovanni Piazza
- Italy : Giuseppe Pizzardo
- Belgium : Jozef-Ernest Van Roey
- Italy : Raffaele Carlo Rossi
- Italy : Carlo Salotti
- Italy : Donato Raffaele Sbarretti Tazza
- German Empire : Karl Joseph Schulte
- Italy : Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster
- Spain : Pedro Segura y Sáenz
- Hungary : Jusztinián György Serédi
- Italy : Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani
- Italy : Enrico Sibilia
- Brazil : Sebastião Leme da Silveira Cintra
- France : Emmanuel Suhard
- Syria : Ignatius Gabriel I. Tappouni
- Italy : Federico Tedeschini
- France : Eugène Tisserant
- Spain : Isidro Gomá y Tomás
- Italy : Alessandro Verde
- Canada : Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve
- France : Jean Verdier
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Giancarlo Zizola : The successor , Patmos-Verlag 1997, p. 116