Electing Pope Leo XIV

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00:00Was this sooner than expected? I felt like it was two days of voting.

00:04I wasn't expecting white smoke so quick. I don't know why.

00:07We don't know how many votes in we were.

00:11It's not clear just yet if it was the fourth or the fifth round of voting.

00:15But that is early doors.

00:16Now, Pope Benedict XVI was voted in after four rounds of voting when he took the position.

00:22Francis was elected after five counts, so both the second day of votes.

00:27And Pope John Paul II, their predecessor, was three days of voting.

00:30So it's certainly not the shortest, which was a number of hours, which happened in 1503.

00:35I think that was when Pope Pius III had passed away after 23 days in office as Pope.

00:40So it's not as short as that, which was, I think, three hours.

00:43And it's not as long as Clement IV or the fifth.

00:46He passed away in 1268, and it took three years to find a new Pope.

00:51So we're somewhere between the middle.