Conclave - 1958

25 October 1958 to 28 October 1958

Elected Pope: John XXIII (Bl. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli †); Age: 76.9
Previous Pope: Pius XII (Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli †); Died at Age: 82.6
Dean: Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant †; Age: 74.6
Camerlengo (Chamberlain): Benedetto Aloisi Masella †; Age: 79.3
Participated:
- Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant †, Dean of the College of Cardinals; Age: 74.6
- Clemente Micara †, Auxiliary Bishop of Roma {Rome}, Italy; Age: 78.8
- Giuseppe Pizzardo †, Prefect of the Congregation of Seminaries and Universities; Age: 81.3
- Benedetto Aloisi Masella †, Prefect of the Congregation of the Discipline of the Sacraments; Age: 79.3
- Federico Tedeschini †, Datary of the Apostolic Datary; Age: 85.0
- Marcello Mimmi †, Secretary of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation; Age: 76.3
- Jozef-Ernest van Roey †, Archbishop of Mechelen, Belgium; Age: 84.8
- Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira †, Patriarch of Lisboa, Portugal; Age: 69.9
- Achille Liènart †, Bishop of Lille, France; Age: 74.7
- Pietro Fumasoni Biondi †, Prefect of the Congregation for Propagation of the Faith; Age: 86.1
- Maurilio Fossati †, Archbishop of Torino {Turin}, Italy; Age: 82.4
- Elia Dalla Costa †, Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}, Italy; Age: 86.4
- Ignace Gabriel I Tappouni †, Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon; Age: 79.0
- Santiago Luis Copello †, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Age: 78.8
- Pierre-Marie Gerlier †, Archbishop of Lyon (-Vienne), France; Age: 78.8
- Grégoire-Pierre XV Agagianian †, Patriarch of Cilicia (Armenian), Lebanon; Age: 63.1
- James Charles McGuigan †, Archbishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Age: 63.9
- Clément-Emile Roques †, Archbishop of Rennes (, Dol, e Saint-Malo), France; Age: 77.9
- Carlos Carmelo de Vasconcelos Motta †, Archbishop of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Age: 68.3
- Norman Thomas Gilroy †, Archbishop of Sydney, Australia; Age: 62.8
- Francis Joseph Spellman †, Archbishop of New York, New York, USA; Age: 69.5
- José María Caro Rodríguez †, Archbishop of Santiago de Chile; Age: 92.3
- Teodosio Clemente de Gouveia †, Archbishop of Lourenço Marques, Mozambique; Age: 69.4
- Jaime de Barros Câmara †, Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Age: 64.3
- Enrique Pla y Deniel †, Archbishop of Toledo, Spain; Age: 81.8
- Manuel Arteaga y Betancourt †, Archbishop of San Cristobal de la Habana, Cuba; Age: 78.8
- Josef Frings †, Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany; Age: 71.7
- Ernesto Ruffini †, Archbishop of Palermo, Italy; Age: 70.8
- Antonio Caggiano †, Bishop of Rosario, Argentina; Age: 69.7
- Thomas Tien Ken-hsin (Tienchensing), S.V.D. †, Archbishop of Peking [Beijing], China; Age: 68.1
- Augusto Álvaro da Silva †, Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil; Age: 82.5
- Gaetano Cicognani †, Prefect of the Congregation of Rites; Age: 76.9
- Bl. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli †, Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}, Italy; Age: 76.9
- Valerio Valeri †, Prefect of the Congregation of the Affairs of Religious; Age: 75.0
- Pietro Ciriaci †, Prefect of the Congregation of the Council; Age: 72.9
- Maurice Feltin †, Archbishop of Paris, France; Age: 75.4
- Carlos María Javier de la Torre †, Archbishop of Quito, Ecuador; Age: 84.9
- Georges-François-Xavier-Marie Grente †, Archbishop (Personal Title) of Le Mans, France; Age: 86.5
- Giuseppe Siri †, Archbishop of Genova {Genoa}, Italy; Age: 52.4
- John Francis D'Alton †, Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland; Age: 76.0
- James Francis Aloysius McIntyre †, Archbishop of Los Angeles, California, USA; Age: 72.3
- Giacomo Lercaro †, Archbishop of Bologna, Italy; Age: 67.0
- Stefan Wyszynski †, Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland; Age: 57.2
- Benjamín de Arriba y Castro †, Archbishop of Tarragona, Spain; Age: 72.5
- Fernando Quiroga y Palacios †, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Age: 58.8
- Paul-Émile Léger, P.S.S. †, Archbishop of Montréal, Québec, Canada; Age: 54.5
- Crisanto Luque Sánchez †, Archbishop of Bogotá, Colombia; Age: 69.7
- Valerian Gracias †, Archbishop of Bombay, India; Age: 58.0
- Joseph Wendel †, Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}, Germany; Age: 57.4
- Nicola Canali †, Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary; Age: 84.4
- Alfredo Ottaviani †, Pro-Secretary of the Congregation of the Holy Office; Age: 68.0
Unable to Participate:
- József Mindszenty †, Archbishop of Esztergom, Hungary; Age: 66.6
- Bl. Alojzije Stepinac †, Archbishop of Zagreb, Croatia; Age: 60.5

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