Terminology of a conclave: From electors to Habemus Papam

Vatican City, Holy See. In the imposing Sistine Chapel, within the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican, the 135 cardinals with the right to vote and under 80 years of age will elect in the coming weeks the successor of Pope Francis. Next, a brief lexicon on this key event:Conclave 2025: for now there will be 133 cardinals after two lossesANNILLO OF THE FISHER: The “fisherman’s ring” is a solid gold ring that bears all the popes with their name engra…

The successor of Pope Francis, who died at the age of 88, must be appointed in the coming weeks. Le Figaro takes stock of the key words needed to understand this decisive election for the Catholic world.

Cardinal Corsican will have the honour of announcing the election of the new pope at the end of the conclave, thus taking up another Frenchman: Cardinal Jean-Louis Touran.

Terminology of a conclave: From electors to Habemus Papam

Following the death of Pope Francis, the Catholic Church will engage in a number of elaborate rituals, involving terms that are rare to common parlance. The conclave will include such terminology.

After the news of the death of Pope Francis on Monday, a group of friends took the opportunity to make a joke to one of their group. They made a young woman believe that the successor could be chosen by the people. This joke that went viral on social networks is given in a context of little information about how the conclave is carried out and that they are novel events for some generations. Everything happened in a WhatsApp group that these fri…

Habebimus papam! – it has been decided when the papal conclave will begin - The only question now is the length of the ceremony.