25–26 August 1978 Sistine Chapel, Apostolic Palace, Vatican City
Key officials
Dean
Carlo Confalonieri
Sub-dean
Paolo Marella
Camerlengo
Jean-Marie Villot
Protopriest
Carlos Carmelo de Vasconcelos Motta
Protodeacon
Pericle Felici
Secretary
Ernesto Civardi
Election
Ballots
4
Elected pope
Albino Luciani Name taken: John Paul I
← 1963
October 1978 →
The papal conclave held on 25 and 26 August 1978 was the first of the two held that year. It was convoked to elect a successor to Paul VI, who had died on 6 August 1978. After the cardinal electors assembled in Rome, they elected Cardinal Albino Luciani, Patriarch of Venice, as the new pope on the fourth ballot. He accepted the election and took the name John Paul I.
It was the first conclave since the promulgation of Ingravescentem aetatem (1970), which made cardinals who had reached the age of 80 by the day the conclave began ineligible to participate in the balloting. There were 15 cardinals excluded by that rule. The number of votes cast for Luciani on the final ballot was so great that even the uniform opposition of these cardinals would not have changed the outcome.[1]
^Reese, Thomas (1998). Inside the Vatican. Harvard University Press. p. 101. ISBN 9780674418028. Retrieved 22 June 2018. According to Reese, 16 cardinals were excluded from voting because of their age.
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