All Vatican elections
2013

2025 Conclave

elected Leo XIV

7–8 May 2025 · The modern conclaves · Sistine Chapel, Apostolic Palace, Vatican City

A conclave was held on 7 and 8 May 2025 to elect a new pope to succeed Francis, who had died on 21 April 2025. Of the 135 eligible cardinal electors, all but two attended.

Elected pope

Leo XIV

Robert Francis Prevost

Succeeded

Francis

Duration

2 days

4 ballots

Cardinal electors

133

locked in under conclave rules

Key officials

DeanGiovanni Battista Re
CamerlengoKevin Joseph Farrell

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.