Of the 65 cardinals eligible to participate, 57 served as cardinal electors in the 1914 papal conclave. Arranged by region and within each alphabetically. Eight did not participate in the conclave. William Henry O'Connell and James Gibbons arrived too late from the United States,[1] as did Louis-Nazaire Bégin from Quebec.[2] Sebastiano Martinelli, Franziskus von Sales Bauer, Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, Giuseppe Antonio Ermenegildo Prisco, and François-Virgile Dubillard were too ill or too frail.[3]
| Country | Number of Electors |
|---|---|
| Italy | 32 |
| France | 6 |
| Austria-Hungary, Spain | 4 |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 3 |
| German Empire, Portugal | 2 |
| Belgium, Brazil, Netherlands, United States | 1 |
- Antonio Agliardi, Apostolic Chancellor
- Ottavio Cagiano de Azevedo, Prefect of Religious
- Domenico Ferrata, Secretary of Holy Office
- Pietro Gasparri, Camerlengo of the College of Cardinals
- Filippo Giustini, Secretary of Discipline of the Sacraments
- Girolamo Maria Gotti, OCD, Prefect of Propagation of the Faith
- Gaetano de Lai, Secretary of Consistorial
- Michele Lega, Counselor of Holy Office
- Benedetto Lorenzelli, Prefect of Studies
- Rafael Merry del Val, Vatican Secretary of State
- Francesco di Paola Cassetta, Prefect of Council
- Angelo Di Pietro, Apostolic Datary
- Aristide Rinaldini, Camerlengo emeritus of the College of Cardinals
- Francesco Salesio Della Volpe, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church
- Domenico Serafini, OSB, Assessor of Holy Office
- Scipione Tecchi, Assessor of Consistorial, Secretary of College of Cardinals
- Serafino Vannutelli, Dean of the College of Cardinals
- Vincenzo Vannutelli, Prefect of Apostolic Signatura
- Bartolomeo Bacilieri, Bishop of Verona
- Gaetano Bisleti, Grand Prior of the Sovereign Order of Malta
- Giulio Boschi, Archbishop of Ferrara
- Aristide Cavallari, Patriarch of Venice
- Giacomo della Chiesa, Archbishop of Bologna (was elected Pope and chose the name Benedict XV)
- Diomede Falconio, OFM, Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri[a]
- Andrea Carlo Ferrari, Archbishop of Milan
- Giuseppe Francica-Nava di Bontifé, Archbishop of Catania
- Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, Nuncio emeritus to Austria-Hungary
- Alessandro Lualdi, Archbishop of Palermo
- Pietro Maffi, Archbishop of Pisa
- Basilio Pompili, Vicar General of Rome
- Agostino Richelmy, Archbishop of Turin
- Antonio Vico, Nuncio to Spain
- Francis Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster
- Michael Logue, Archbishop of Armagh
- Francis Aidan Gasquet, OSB, President of Pontifical Commission for the Revision and Emendation of the Vulgate
- Willem van Rossum, CSSR, President of Pontifical Biblical Commission
Notes
edit- ^ Falconio was an Italian-born U.S. citizen who spent much of his career in Canada and the United States.
References
edit- ^ Chadwick, Owen (1998). A History of the Popes, 1830-1914. Ocford University Press. p. 336. ISBN 978-0-19-926286-1. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ Pollard, John (2005). Benedict XV: The Unknown Pope and the Pursuit of Peace. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 60. ISBN 9780860124085. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
- ^ Burkle-Young, Francis A. (2000). Papal Elections in the Age of Transition, 1878-1922. Lexington Books. p. 103. ISBN 9780739101148. Retrieved 15 November 2017.