Conclave 2025: Follow the election of the new Pope live

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During the first ballot on Wednesday, the cardinals will express their ideal choice outside of any strategy. Serious affairs and alliances training will start on Thursday, while the college will begin to vote four times a day. THE experts await white smoke Thursday or Friday. A longer duration of the conclave would be interpreted as the sign of a large division of the Church.

11:36 am

It was at 4:30 pm that the cardinals voters will leave the Pauline chapel by singing the song “Veni Coutor Spiritus” to go to the Sistine Chapel. They will then be confiscated from phones and computers. With a wave jamming system, antidron screens at the windows and a microphone detection tool, the Sistine will at that time be a digital bunker.

The master of liturgical celebrations will then pronounce the famous “extra omnes” (“all outside”), before closing the doors of the chapel. The cardinals will take the oath to respect the Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis which governs the rules of the conclave and the respect of secrecy. A swear that will also lend the laity – cooks, plumbers, doctors, florists – and religious – assistant sisters and priests – who attend the college of cardinals voters during the conclave. The election can then begin.

10h22

Cardinals from all over the world began to celebrate on Wednesday morning, in the Saint-Pierre basilica at the Vatican, the mass preceding the opening of the conclave which will eliminate the successor of Pope Francis, AFP noted.

This mass chaired by the dean of the Cardinalice college, the Italian Giovanni Battista Re, started at 10 a.m. (Swiss time) before the first vote of the 133 Cardinals at the end of the afternoon.

10:00

At the Sistine Chapel, everything is ready for the new Pope, including to dress it.

Who will be the next sovereign pontiff? Our article On the favorites to the succession of Pope Francis is to read here.

08h52

What exactly is the conclave? This Wednesday afternoon, the 133 cardinals voters will shut up to find a successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21. Discover our detailed article on the conclave.

07h23

The Sistine Chapel is ready for the start of the conclave. The 133 cardinals voters are expected to elect the 267th Pope.

What if François’s successor, the first Argentinian pope in history, was a Helvetus? Our country has two cardinals, both are voters and can therefore technically claim the title of Pope. They are Kurt Koch (75), Lucernois, and Haut-Valaisan Emil Paul Tscherrig (78 years old). We are presented here.

While waiting for the famous white smoke not to rise from chimney Above the Saint-Pierre square, a sign that the Catholic Church will hold its new leader, speculations are going well: who will succeed Jorge Mario Bergoglio as 267th Pope?

Among the hundreds of cardinals voters, some are regularly presented by observers as “papabili”, that is to say the succession. This is the case of Pietro Parolin, number two of the Vatican during almost all of the pontificate of François, Matteo Zuppi, Archbishop of Bologna, or even Erdo, 72, archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest. Discover our detailed forecast.

Exactly 133 cardinals, aged on average of 70 years and mainly appointed by Pope Francis, are gathered this Wednesday to elect his successor. Discover the different stages of the process in the video below.

Hello and welcome to this live dedicated to the conclave which opens this Wednesday, May 7 in Rome.