1623 Conclave
elected Urban VIII19 July – 6 August 1623 · The early modern conclaves · Apostolic Palace, Papal States
The 1623 papal conclave was convened on the death of Pope Gregory XV and ended with the election of Cardinal Maffeo Barberini as Pope Urban VIII. It was the first conclave to take place after the reforms that Gregory XV issued in his 1621 bull Aeterni Patris Filius.
Elected pope
Urban VIII
Maffeo Barberini
Succeeded
Gregory XV
Duration
19 days
Cardinal electors
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locked in under conclave rules
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.