1294 papal conclave

Papal conclave
December 1294
Dates and location
23–24 December 1294
Castel Nuovo, Naples
Key officials
DeanGerardo Bianchi
CamerlengoTommaso d'Ocra
ProtopriestBenedetto Caetani
ProtodeaconMatteo Rosso Orsini
Election
Ballots1
Elected pope
Benedetto Caetani
Name taken: Boniface VIII
1303 →

The 1294 papal conclave (23–24 December) was convoked in Naples after the resignation of Pope Celestine V on 13 December 1294. Celestine V had only months earlier restored the election procedures set forth in the papal bull Ubi periculum of Pope Gregory X, which had been suspended by Pope Adrian V in July 1276. Every papal election since then has been a papal conclave. It was the first papal conclave held during the lifetime of the preceding pontiff, an event not repeated until the 2013 papal conclave following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.


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