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1389 Conclave

elected Boniface IX

25 October – 2 November 1389 · Conclave law and the Great Schism · Apostolic Palace, Papal States

The 1389 conclave (25 October – 2 November) was convoked after the death of Pope Urban VI. The conclave is historically unique because all of the cardinal electors were the creation of a single pontiff: Urban VI, the very pope who was being replaced.

Elected pope

Boniface IX

Pietro Tomacelli

Succeeded

Urban VI

Duration

9 days

Cardinal electors

locked in under conclave rules

Key officials

DeanFrancesco Moricotti Prignani
CamerlengoMarino Bulcani

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.