1378 Conclave
elected Urban VI7–9 April 1378 · Conclave law and the Great Schism · Old St. Peter's Basilica, Papal States
The 1378 papal conclave, held from 7–9 April 1378, was the papal conclave which was the immediate cause of the Western Schism in the Catholic Church. The conclave was one of the shortest in the history of the Catholic Church.
Elected pope
Urban VI
Bartolomeo Prignano
Succeeded
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Duration
3 days
Cardinal electors
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locked in under conclave rules
Key officials
| Dean | Ange de Grimoard |
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.