Annuntio Vobis Gaudium Magnum... Habemus Papam

[Canary42]

How long before those words ring out across Rome and the world, announcing the election process's successful completion. 

The record is 2 years nine months in 1628.

The process was more recently speeded up and since then the longest is 5 days in 1922.

It is the most secretive election process in the world.

The proclamation was introduced after much confusion over the colour of the smoke which was the original indicator.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-904185ba-2600-4d37-9419-9204b4da5167

 

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1894050.html

 

[mushroom25]

// The proclamation was introduced after much confusion over the colour of the smoke which was the original indicator. //

that still didn't stop David Lammy getting snarky about the meaning of black smoke....... 🤣🤣🤣

[albaqwerty]

135 cardinals under the age of 80?! 

Is there a minimum age to be a cardinal? From the link, if you're an 82yr old cardinal you can't vote?

Read somewhere there is gossip that they'll be appointing a much younger pope than Francis was when he became pope.

 

[10ClarionSt]

There's no smoke without the Pope! He was a heavy smoker anyway wasn't he? In that picture of him meeting Charles and Camilla, she's asking him for cig!