Papal conclave December 1294 | |
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Dates and location | |
23–24 December 1294 Castel Nuovo, Naples | |
Key officials | |
Dean | Gerardo Bianchi |
Camerlengo | Tommaso d'Ocra |
Protopriest | Benedetto Caetani |
Protodeacon | Matteo Rosso Orsini |
Election | |
Ballots | 1 |
Elected pope | |
Benedetto Caetani Name taken: Boniface VIII | |
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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.