1958 conclave
The conclave of 1958 after the death of Pope Pius XII. on October 9, 1958 began on October 25, 1958. On October 28, 1958, in the 11th ballot, the Patriarch of Venice Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was elected as the new Pope . He took the name John XXIII. on.
Participating cardinals
Of 54 cardinals eligible to vote , 51 took part in the conclave, including the archbishops of Cologne and Munich from German-speaking countries. József Mindszenty and Aloysius Stepinac were absent for political reasons. Edward Aloysius Mooney died of a heart attack three hours before the conclave began.
- Soviet Union : Grégoire-Pierre Agagianian
- Spain : Benjamin de Arriba y Castro
- Brazil : Jaime de Barros Câmara
- Cuba : Manuel Arteaga
- Italy : Pietro Fumasoni Biondi
- Argentina : Antonio Caggiano
- Italy : Nicola Canali
- Italy : Gaetano Cicognani
- Italy : Pietro Ciriaci
- Portugal : Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira
- Argentina : Santiago Luis Copello
- Italy : Elia Dalla Costa
- Ireland : John D'Alton
- Spain : Enrique Pla y Deniel
- France : Maurice Feltin
- Italy : Maurilio Fossati
- Federal Republic of Germany : Joseph Frings
- France : Pierre-Marie Gerlier
- Australia : Norman Thomas Gilroy
- India : Valerian Gracias
- France : Georges Grente
- Mozambique : Teodósio Clemente de Gouveia
- Canada : Paul-Émile Léger
- Italy : Giacomo Lercaro
- France : Achille Liénart
- Italy : Benedetto Aloisi Masella
- Canada : James Charles McGuigan
- United States : James Francis McIntyre
- Italy : Clemente Micara
- Italy : Marcello Mimmi
- Italy : Alfredo Ottaviani
- Spain : Fernando Quiroga y Palacios
- Italy : Giuseppe Pizzardo
- Chile : José María Caro Rodríguez
- Belgium : Jozef-Ernest Van Roey
- Italy : Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli , elected Pope John XXIII.
- France : Clément-Émile Roques
- Italy : Ernesto Ruffini
- Colombia : Crisanto Luque Sánchez
- Brazil : Augusto Álvaro da Silva
- Italy : Giuseppe Siri
- United States : Francis Spellman
- Syria : Ignatius Gabriel I. Tappouni
- Italy : Federico Tedeschini
- People's Republic of China : Thomas Tien Ken-sin
- France : Eugène Tisserant
- Ecuador : Carlos María de la Torre
- Italy : Valerio Valeri
- Brazil : Carlos Carmelo de Vasconcelos Motta
- Federal Republic of Germany : Joseph Wendel
- Poland : Stefan Wyszyński
Web links
- List of participating cardinals on apostolische-nachstieg.de