1191 Papal Election
elected Celestine III21 March 1191 · The first papal elections · Rome
The 1191 papal election took place after the death of Pope Clement III. Pope Clement, according to differing and irreconcilable reports, died in March 1191, in the last third of the month, on the 20th, the 25th, the 26th, the 28th, or perhaps 2 April or 4 April, or 10 April.
Elected pope
Celestine III
Giacinto Bobone
Succeeded
Clement III
Duration
1 day
Cardinal electors
—
pre-conclave election
Key officials
| Dean | Conrad of Wittelsbach |
| Camerlengo | Cencio Savelli |
Ballot-by-ballot tallies are destroyed by design — the paper is burned in the stove whose smoke announces the result — so this entry records what the Church documents: the dates, the electors, the number of ballots where known, and the man who walked out onto the balcony.