All Vatican elections

1758 Conclave

elected Clement XIII

15 May – 6 July 1758 · The early modern conclaves · Apostolic Palace, Papal States

Curial group – it included two factions of curial Cardinals: anziani – the small party of the Cardinals created by Pope Clement XII with his Cardinal-nephew Neri Maria Corsini as leader; and zelanti – the group of the conservative Cardinals, headed by Cardinal Giuseppe Spinelli, who generally opposed any secular influence on the Church.

Elected pope

Clement XIII

Carlo di Rezzonico

Succeeded

Duration

53 days

Cardinal electors

locked in under conclave rules

Key officials

DeanRainiero d'Elci
CamerlengoHenry Benedict Stuart

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.