12–13 March 2013 Sistine Chapel, Apostolic Palace, Vatican City
Key officials
Dean
Angelo Sodano
Sub-dean
Roger Etchegaray
Camerlengo
Tarcisio Bertone
Protopriest
Paulo Evaristo Arns
Protodeacon
Jean-Louis Tauran
Secretary
Lorenzo Baldisseri
Election
Candidates
See Papabile
Ballots
5
Elected pope
Jorge Mario Bergoglio Name taken: Francis
← 2005
A conclave was convened on 12 March 2013 to elect a pope to succeed Benedict XVI, who had resigned on 28 February. 115 participating cardinal-electors gathered. On the fifth ballot,[1] the conclave elected Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, SJ, Archbishop of Buenos Aires. He took the pontifical name Francis.
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