This is a breakdown of the Cardinal who is voting.
How many cardinals choose the new pope?
There are 252 cardinals in total, but only cardinals under the age of 80 can attend the meeting.
While that means 135 cardinals are eligible to vote, the two announced that they will not go to Rome, while 133 cardinals attended the meeting.
Francis was selected at the 2013 conference, with 207 cardinals, of which 117 were eligible.
Like this year, the two cardinals were unable to vote, so 115 cardinals entered the meeting.
Which countries does the Cardinal come from?
According to the Vatican, the cardinal who elected the new pope came from 70 countries.
Most are from Europe, with 52 cardinals, 17 from Africa, 16 from North America, 4 from Central America, 17 from South America, 23 from Asia, and 4 from Oceania.
This will be the first papal convention, where less than half of the voted cardinals are European, showing a European-centric shift in Catholicism. In fact, it would be the most diverse conference in history, a legacy brought by Pope Francis, the first Latin American pope, who always emphasized the importance of this diversity and refuted the notion that nationality or geographical location should determine who becomes the Pope.
He promoted the cardinal from several underrepresented countries, including Myanmar and East Timor. Some of Francis' appointments came from countries that will be represented for the first time within the scope of a conference, including the two mentioned above, Cape Verde, Paraguay, Paraguay, Haiti and South Sudan.
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According to the Pew Research Center, Europe is still "overrepresented" at Cardinal College after Pope Francis, but less than during the period of the Pope's election in 2013. Based on the most populous population, they calculated that Latin America, which has 41% of the world's Catholic population, accounting for 18% of 2022, but has 18% of the vote-style cardinals.
The country with the most cardinals is Italy, with 17 voted cardinals, followed by the United States, with 10, while Brazil has seven. Many countries are represented by only one voted cardinal, including Peru, Serbia, Nigeria and Sri Lanka.
Selection process
Pope Paul VI ruled in 1970 that cardinals over 80 could not vote for the pope.
The Cardinal was elected by the Pope and maintained his lifelong status. 108 of the Cardinals appointed by Pope Francis to be eligible for election were appointed to the Cardinal Academy, while the rest were appointed by the former two Popes Benedict XVI and John Paul II.
During the 2013 meeting, former Pope Benedict XVI promoted only 67 cardinals to comparisons, while John Paul II rose by 48, who remained the pope until 2005.
how long have Other conclusions?
If a conference contest does not produce a new pope after 13 days of voting, a runoff election between the two main candidates is held.
The longest meeting ever took place in the 13th century, when the church spent nearly three years (more than 1,000 days) electing Pope Clement IV.
However, since 1831, the process is usually more than a week old.
As for the recent papal election, Pope Francis elected the third election in 2013, and his former Pope Benedict XVI was elected within two days.
Usually, the length of time depends on the first few votes. One vote will be held on the first day of the vote. If no candidate gets the necessary 89 votes, four votes will occur in the next two days, two votes a day in the morning and two votes a day.
These ballots were then burned - the colors of the smoke showed the outside world, whether or not the Pope was chosen.
If the smoke from the chimney of the Sistine Church is black, it means no decision was made. If the emerging smoke is white, the public will know that the new pope has been chosen. Unless the Pope is chosen, every two rounds of votes will be burned.
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If no decision is made on the third day, voters are allowed to take a day off.