All Vatican elections

1314–1316 Conclave

elected John XXII

1 May 1314 – 7 August 1316 · Conclave law and the Great Schism · Carpentras Cathedral, Provence, Dominican house in Lyon

The papal conclave held from 1 May 1314 to 7 August 1316 in the apostolic palace of Carpentras and then the Dominican house in Lyon was one of the longest conclaves in the history of the Roman Catholic Church and the first conclave of the Avignon Papacy.

Elected pope

John XXII

Jacques Duèze

Succeeded

Duration

2.3 years

Cardinal electors

locked in under conclave rules

Key officials

DeanNicolò Albertini
CamerlengoArnaud d'Aux

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.