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1823 papal conclave
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The papal conclave held from 2 to 28 September 1823 ended with the election of Annibale della Genga to succeed the death recently deceased Pius VII as pope. Della Genga took the name Leo XII.
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Papal conclave September 1823 | |
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Dates and location | |
2–28 September 1823 Quirinal Palace, Papal States | |
Key officials | |
Dean | Giulio Maria della Somaglia |
Sub-dean | Bartolomeo Pacca |
Camerlengo | Bartolomeo Pacca |
Protopriest | Giuseppe Firrao |
Protodeacon | Fabrizio Ruffo Dionigi |
Election | |
Vetoed | Antonio Gabriele Severoli |
Elected pope | |
Annibale della Genga Name taken: Leo XII | |
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Pius VII, who had been elected in 1800, had an unusually long pontificate, during which the Catholic Church had faced, in the French Revolution and its aftermath, a severe attack on its power and legitimacy. Pius himself had been a prisoner of Napoleon in France for six years.