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Conclave to elect new Pope to start on May 7: Vatican
Indian Chronicle
|May 04, 2025
Catholic cardinals meeting in Rome on Monday (April 28, 2025) have set May 7 as the start date for the Conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis, the Vatican spokesman said.The date was decided during a closed-door meeting of cardinals at the Vatican, the first since the funeral of Pope Francis
The cardinals will take part in a solemn mass at St Peter's Basilica, after which those eligible to vote will gather in the Sistine Chapel for the secretive ballot, spokesman Matteo Bruni said.Some 135 cardinals, all under the age of 80 and from across the world, are eligible to take part in the Conclave and decide who should be the next leader of the 1.4-billion-member Church.The previous two Conclaves, held in 2005 and 2013, lasted just two days. The 16th-century Sistine Chapel, where Conclaves are held, was closed to tourists on Monday to allow for preparations for the vote.
This story is from the May 04, 2025 edition of Indian Chronicle.
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