Sentence examples for duration of a conclave from inspiring English sources

Whenever it is held, the duration of a conclave is also uncertain.

In 1503 Machiavelli was sent to Rome for the duration of the conclave that elected Pope Julius II, an enemy of the Borgias, whose election Cesare had unwisely aided.

A logistical task comes next: the assigning by lot of rooms for the 115 cardinals at the Vatican's Santa Marta residence for the duration of the conclave, where they will be denied contact with the outside world.

Though the party tries to keep its workings veiled, indications of a conclave this month at Beidaihe are multiplying.

Giving the appearance of holding oneself out as a possible pope is one of the worst political mistakes ahead of a conclave, and he avoided it.

He added that he did not know whether the change would affect the timing of a conclave, at which 117 cardinals will elect the next pope.

The papal conclave, May 1605, is one example of a conclave where a candidate (Antonmaria Sauli) was defeated because enough other cardinals were convinced of the need for "a Pope willing to punish the cardinal-nephews for robbing the papacy".

The NCAA tournament selection committee will sequester itself Sunday in something of a conclave of Cardinals that's more Louisville than Vatican City.

These rules were followed, so far as is known, given the secrecy of a conclave, in electing Pope Francis in March 2013.

In 1970, Paul VI decreed that cardinals upon reaching the age of eighty before a conclave start were ineligible to vote in the conclave, and also increased the limit of active cardinal electors to 120.

"We need a conclave of the parties," said Alessandro Milan on Radio 24.