Cardinal electors for the 1922 conclave

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Cardinal Achille Ratti was elected Pope Pius XI by the 1922 conclave on 6 February.

The papal conclave of 1922 was convened to elect a pope, the leader of the Catholic Church, to succeed Pope Benedict XV following his death on 22 January 1922.

Of the 60 members of the College of Cardinals at the time of Benedict XV's death, 53 participated in the subsequent conclave. The late arrival of several electors led Pope Pius XI, a month after his election, to extend the time between a pope's death and the start of a conclave.

Of the 53 electors, 6 were cardinal bishops, 40 were cardinal priests, and 7 were cardinal deacons; 5 had been created cardinals by Pope Leo XIII, 22 by Pope Pius X, and 26 by Pope Benedict XV; 25 worked in the service of the Holy See (such as in the Roman Curia), and 28 were in pastoral ministry outside Rome. The oldest cardinal elector in the conclave was Vincenzo Vannutelli, at the age of 85, and the youngest was Alessio Ascalesi, at the age of 49.

The cardinal electors entered the Sistine Chapel to begin the conclave on 2 February 1922. On 6 February, after fourteen ballots over five days, they elected Cardinal Achille Ratti, the archbishop of Milan, who took the papal name Pius XI.

Cardinal electors

The data below are as of 22 January 1922, the date on which the Holy See became vacant. Cardinals belonging to institutes of consecrated life or to societies of apostolic life are indicated by the relevant post-nominal letters.

 Elected pope

Rank	Name	Country	Born	Order	Consistory	Office
1	Vincenzo Vannutelli	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CB	Template:Dts Leo XIII	Prefect of the Congregation of Ceremonies, Datary of the Apostolic Dataria (Dean)
2	Gaetano de Lai	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CB	Template:Dts Pius X	Secretary of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation
3	Antonio Vico	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CB	Template:Dts Pius X	Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites
4	Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CB	Template:Dts Pius X	Cardinal Bishop of Albano
5	Basilio Pompilj	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CB	Template:Dts Pius X	Vicar General of Rome
6	Giovanni Cagliero Template:Post-nominals	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CB	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Cardinal Bishop of Frascati
7	Michael Logue	Ireland	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Leo XIII	Archbishop of Armagh
8	Giuseppe Francica-Nava de Bontifè	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Leo XIII	Archbishop of Catania
9	Agostino Richelmy	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Leo XIII	Archbishop of Turin
10	Bartolomeo Bacilieri	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Leo XIII	Bishop of Verona
11	Rafael Merry del Val	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Pius X	Secretary of the Congregation of the Holy Office
12	Ottavio Cagiano de Azevedo	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Pius X	Chancellor of the Apostolic Chancery
13	Pietro Maffi	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Pius X	Archbishop of Pisa
14	Alessandro Lualdi	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Pius X	Archbishop of Palermo
15	Désiré-Joseph Mercier	Belgium	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Pius X	Archbishop of Mechelen
16	Pietro Gasparri	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Pius X	Cardinal Secretary of State (Camerlengo)
17	Louis Luçon	France	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Pius X	Archbishop of Reims
18	Pierre Andrieu	France	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Pius X	Archbishop of Bordeaux
19	António Mendes Belo	Portugal	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Pius X	Patriarch of Lisbon
20	Francis Bourne	United Kingdom	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Pius X	Archbishop of Westminster
21	Willem Marinus van Rossum Template:Post-nominals	Netherlands	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Pius X	Prefect of the Congregation for Propagation of the Faith
22	János Csernoch	Hungary	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Pius X	Archbishop of Esztergom
23	Friedrich Gustav Piffl	Austria	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Pius X	Archbishop of Vienna
24	Alfonso Mistrangelo Template:Post-nominals	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Pius X	Archbishop of Florence
25	Andreas Frühwirth Template:Post-nominals	Austria	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Cardinal Priest of Santi Cosma e Damiano
26	Raffaele Scapinelli di Leguigno	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Cardinal Priest of San Girolamo dei Croati
27	Pietro La Fontaine	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Patriarch of Venice
28	Vittorio Ranuzzi de' Bianchi	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Papal majordomo
29	Donato Sbarretti	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Prefect of the Congregation of the Council
30	Louis-Ernest Dubois	France	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CB	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Archbishop of Paris
31	Tommaso Pio Boggiani Template:Post-nominals	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Archbishop Emeritus of Genoa
32	Alessio Ascalesi Template:Post-nominals	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Archbishop of Benevento
33	Louis-Joseph Maurin	France	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Archbishop of Lyon
34	Adolf Bertram	Germany	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Archbishop of Breslau
35	Augusto Silj	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura
36	Juan Soldevila y Romero	Spain	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Archbishop of Zaragoza
37	Teodoro Valfre di Bonzo	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Prefect of the Congregation for Religious
38	Aleksander Kakowski	Poland	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Archbishop of Warsaw
39	Edmund Dalbor	Poland	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Archbishop of Gniezno and Poznań
40	Francesco Ragonesi	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Spain
41	Michael von Faulhaber	Germany	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Archbishop of Munich and Freising
42	Juan Benlloch i Vivó	Spain	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Archbishop of Burgos
43	Francisco Vidal y Barraquer	Spain	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Archbishop of Tarragona
44	Karl Joseph Schulte	Germany	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Archbishop of Cologne
45	Giovanni Tacci	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Prefecture of the Pontifical Household
46	Achille Ratti*	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Archbishop of Milan
47	Gaetano Bisleti	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CD	Template:Dts Pius X	Prefect of the Congregation of Seminaries and Universities (Protodeacon)
48	Louis Billot Template:Post-nominals	France	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CD	Template:Dts Pius X	Cardinal Deacon of Santa Maria in Via Lata
49	Michele Lega	France	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CD	Template:Dts Pius X	Prefect of the Congregation of the Discipline of the Sacraments
50	Francis Aidan Gasquet	United Kingdom	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CD	Template:Dts Pius X	Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archive, Librarian of the Vatican Library
51	Niccolò Marini	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CD	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
52	Oreste Giorgi	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CD	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary
53	Camillo Laurenti	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CD	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Secretary of the Congregation for Propagation of the Faith

Not in attendance

Rank	Name	Country	Born	Order	Consistory	Office	Reason for absence
1	William Henry O'Connell	United States	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Pius X	Archbishop of Boston	Did not arrive in time
2	Dennis Joseph Dougherty	United States	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Benedict XV	Archbishop of Philadelphia	Did not arrive in time
3	Louis-Nazaire Bégin	Canada	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Pius X	Archbishop of Quebec	Did not arrive in time
4	José María Martín de Herrera y de la Iglesia	Spain	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Leo XIII	Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela	Illness
5	Lev Skrbenský z Hříště	Czechoslovakia	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Leo XIII	Archbishop of Olomouc	Illness
6	Giuseppe Antonio Ermenegildo Prisco	Italy	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Leo XIII	Archbishop of Naples	Illness
7	Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti	Brazil	Template:Dts (age Template:Age in years)	CP	Template:Dts Pius X	Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro	Did not attempt the journey

Cardinal electors by country

The 53 attending cardinal electors were from 12 countries. The countries with the greatest number of cardinal electors were Italy (thirty), France (six), and, jointly, Germany and Spain (three each).

 Country of elected pope

Cardinal electors by country

Country	Continent	Number
Austria	Europe	2
Belgium	Europe	1
France	Europe	6
Germany	Europe	3
Hungary	Europe	1
Ireland	Europe	1
Italy*	Europe	30
Netherlands	Europe	1
Poland	Europe	2
Portugal	Europe	1
Spain	Europe	3
United Kingdom	Europe	2
Total		53

References

• Republished by Muriwai Books, 2017.