Cardinal electors for the 1922 conclave

Cardinal Achille Ratti was elected Pope Pius XI by the 1922 conclave on 6 February.

The papal conclave of 1922 was convened to elect a pope, the leader of the Catholic Church, to succeed Pope Benedict XV following his death on 22 January 1922.

Of the 60 members of the College of Cardinals at the time of Benedict XV's death, 53 participated in the subsequent conclave. The late arrival of several electors led Pope Pius XI, a month after his election, to extend the time between a pope's death and the start of a conclave.

Of the 53 electors, 6 were cardinal bishops, 40 were cardinal priests, and 7 were cardinal deacons; 5 had been created cardinals by Pope Leo XIII, 22 by Pope Pius X, and 26 by Pope Benedict XV; 25 worked in the service of the Holy See (such as in the Roman Curia), and 28 were in pastoral ministry outside Rome. The oldest cardinal elector in the conclave was Vincenzo Vannutelli, at the age of 85, and the youngest was Alessio Ascalesi, at the age of 49.

The cardinal electors entered the Sistine Chapel to begin the conclave on 2 February 1922. On 6 February, after fourteen ballots over five days, they elected Cardinal Achille Ratti, the archbishop of Milan, who took the papal name Pius XI.

Cardinal electors

The data below are as of 22 January 1922, the date on which the Holy See became vacant. Cardinals belonging to institutes of consecrated life or to societies of apostolic life are indicated by the relevant post-nominal letters.

* Elected pope

Rank	Name	Country	Born	Order	Consistory	Office
1	Vincenzo Vannutelli	Italy	5 December 1836 (age 85)	CB	30 December 1889 Leo XIII	Prefect of the Congregation of Ceremonies, Datary of the Apostolic Dataria (Dean)
2	Gaetano de Lai	Italy	26 July 1853 (age 68)	CB	16 December 1907 Pius X	Secretary of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation (Vice-Dean)
3	Antonio Vico	Italy	9 January 1847 (age 75)	CB	27 November 1911 Pius X	Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites
4	Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte	Italy	10 April 1851 (age 70)	CB	27 November 1911 Pius X	Cardinal Bishop of Albano
5	Basilio Pompilj	Italy	16 April 1858 (age 63)	CB	27 November 1911 Pius X	Vicar General of Rome
6	Giovanni Cagliero SDB	Italy	11 January 1838 (age 84)	CB	6 December 1915 Benedict XV	Cardinal Bishop of Frascati
7	Michael Logue	Ireland United Kingdom	1 October 1840 (age 81)	CP	16 January 1893 Leo XIII	Archbishop of Armagh
8	Giuseppe Francica-Nava de Bontifè	Italy	23 July 1846 (age 75)	CP	19 June 1899 Leo XIII	Archbishop of Catania
9	Agostino Richelmy	Italy	29 November 1850 (age 71)	CP	19 June 1899 Leo XIII	Archbishop of Turin
10	Bartolomeo Bacilieri	Italy	28 March 1842 (age 79)	CP	15 April 1901 Leo XIII	Bishop of Verona
11	Rafael Merry del Val	Italy	10 October 1865 (age 56)	CP	9 November 1903 Pius X	Secretary of the Congregation of the Holy Office
12	Ottavio Cagiano de Azevedo	Italy	7 November 1845 (age 76)	CP	11 December 1905 Pius X	Chancellor of the Apostolic Chancery
13	Pietro Maffi	Italy	12 October 1858 (age 63)	CP	11 December 1905 Pius X	Archbishop of Pisa
14	Alessandro Lualdi	Italy	12 August 1858 (age 63)	CP	15 April 1907 Pius X	Archbishop of Palermo
15	Désiré-Joseph Mercier	Belgium	21 November 1851 (age 70)	CP	15 April 1907 Pius X	Archbishop of Mechelen
16	Pietro Gasparri	Italy	5 May 1852 (age 69)	CP	16 December 1907 Pius X	Cardinal Secretary of State (Camerlengo)
17	Louis Luçon	France	28 October 1842 (age 79)	CP	16 December 1907 Pius X	Archbishop of Reims
18	Pierre Andrieu	France	7 December 1849 (age 72)	CP	16 December 1907 Pius X	Archbishop of Bordeaux
19	António Mendes Belo	Portugal	18 June 1842 (age 79)	CP	27 November 1911 Pius X	Patriarch of Lisbon
20	Francis Bourne	United Kingdom	23 March 1861 (age 60)	CP	27 November 1911 Pius X	Archbishop of Westminster
21	Willem Marinus van Rossum CSSR	Netherlands	3 September 1854 (age 67)	CP	27 November 1911 Pius X	Prefect of the Congregation for Propagation of the Faith
22	János Csernoch	Hungary	18 June 1852 (age 69)	CP	27 November 1911 Pius X	Archbishop of Esztergom
23	Friedrich Gustav Piffl	Austria	15 October 1864 (age 57)	CP	25 May 1914 Pius X	Archbishop of Vienna
24	Alfonso Mistrangelo SchP	Italy	26 April 1852 (age 69)	CP	25 May 1914 Pius X	Archbishop of Florence
25	Andreas Frühwirth OP	Austria	21 August 1845 (age 76)	CP	6 December 1915 Benedict XV	Cardinal Priest of Santi Cosma e Damiano
26	Raffaele Scapinelli di Leguigno	Italy	25 April 1858 (age 63)	CP	6 December 1915 Benedict XV	Cardinal Priest of San Girolamo dei Croati
27	Pietro La Fontaine	Italy	29 November 1860 (age 61)	CP	4 December 1916 Benedict XV	Patriarch of Venice
28	Vittorio Ranuzzi de' Bianchi	Italy	14 July 1857 (age 64)	CP	4 December 1916 Benedict XV	Papal majordomo
29	Donato Sbarretti	Italy	12 November 1856 (age 65)	CP	4 December 1916 Benedict XV	Prefect of the Congregation of the Council
30	Louis-Ernest Dubois	France	1 September 1856 (age 65)	CB	4 December 1916 Benedict XV	Archbishop of Paris
31	Tommaso Pio Boggiani OP	Italy	19 January 1863 (age 59)	CP	4 December 1916 Benedict XV	Archbishop Emeritus of Genoa
32	Alessio Ascalesi CPPS	Italy	22 October 1872 (age 49)	CP	4 December 1916 Benedict XV	Archbishop of Benevento
33	Louis-Joseph Maurin	France	15 February 1859 (age 62)	CP	4 December 1916 Benedict XV	Archbishop of Lyon
34	Adolf Bertram	Germany	14 March 1859 (age 62)	CP	4 December 1916 Benedict XV	Archbishop of Breslau
35	Augusto Silj	Italy	9 July 1846 (age 75)	CP	4 December 1916 Benedict XV	Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura
36	Juan Soldevila y Romero	Spain	20 October 1843 (age 78)	CP	15 December 1919 Benedict XV	Archbishop of Zaragoza
37	Teodoro Valfre di Bonzo	Italy	21 August 1853 (age 68)	CP	15 December 1919 Benedict XV	Prefect of the Congregation for Religious
38	Aleksander Kakowski	Poland	5 February 1862 (age 68)	CP	15 December 1919 Benedict XV	Archbishop of Warsaw
39	Edmund Dalbor	Poland	5 February 1862 (age 68)	CP	15 December 1919 Benedict XV	Archbishop of Gniezno and Poznań
40	Francesco Ragonesi	Italy	21 December 1850 (age 71)	CP	7 March 1921 Benedict XV	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Spain
41	Michael von Faulhaber	Germany	5 March 1869 (age 52)	CP	7 March 1921 Benedict XV	Archbishop of Munich and Freising
42	Juan Benlloch i Vivó	Spain	29 December 1864 (age 57)	CP	7 March 1921 Benedict XV	Archbishop of Burgos
43	Francisco Vidal y Barraquer	Spain	3 October 1868 (age 53)	CP	7 March 1921 Benedict XV	Archbishop of Tarragona
44	Karl Joseph Schulte	Germany	14 September 1871 (age 50)	CP	7 March 1921 Benedict XV	Archbishop of Cologne
45	Giovanni Tacci	Italy	12 November 1863 (age 58)	CP	13 June 1921 Benedict XV	Prefecture of the Pontifical Household
46	Achille Ratti*	Italy	31 May 1857 (age 64)	CP	13 June 1921 Benedict XV	Archbishop of Milan
47	Gaetano Bisleti	Italy	20 March 1856 (age 65)	CD	27 November 1911 Pius X	Prefect of the Congregation of Seminaries and Universities (Protodeacon)
48	Louis Billot SJ	France	12 January 1846 (age 76)	CD	27 November 1911 Pius X	Cardinal Deacon of Santa Maria in Via Lata
49	Michele Lega	France	1 January 1860 (age 62)	CD	25 May 1914 Pius X	Prefect of the Congregation of the Discipline of the Sacraments
50	Francis Aidan Gasquet	United Kingdom	5 October 1846 (age 75)	CD	25 May 1914 Pius X	Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archive, Librarian of the Vatican Library
51	Niccolò Marini	Italy	20 August 1843 (age 78)	CD	4 December 1916 Benedict XV	Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
52	Oreste Giorgi	Italy	19 May 1856 (age 65)	CD	4 December 1916 Benedict XV	Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary
53	Camillo Laurenti	Italy	20 November 1861 (age 60)	CD	21 June 1921 Benedict XV	Secretary of the Congregation for Propagation of the Faith

Not in attendance

Rank	Name	Country	Born	Order	Consistory	Office	Reason for absence
1	William Henry O'Connell	United States	8 December 1859 (age 62)	CP	27 November 1911 Pius X	Archbishop of Boston	Did not arrive in time
2	Dennis Joseph Dougherty	United States	16 August 1865 (age 56)	CP	7 March 1921 Benedict XV	Archbishop of Philadelphia	Did not arrive in time
3	Louis-Nazaire Bégin	Canada	10 January 1840 (age 82)	CP	25 May 1914 Pius X	Archbishop of Quebec	Did not arrive in time
4	José María Martín de Herrera y de la Iglesia	Spain	26 August 1835 (age 86)	CP	19 April 1897 Leo XIII	Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela	Illness
5	Lev Skrbenský z Hříště	Czechoslovakia	12 June 1863 (age 58)	CP	15 April 1901 Leo XIII	Archbishop of Olomouc	Illness
6	Giuseppe Antonio Ermenegildo Prisco	Italy	8 September 1833 (age 88)	CP	30 November 1896 Leo XIII	Archbishop of Naples	Illness
7	Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti	Brazil	17 January 1850 (age 72)	CP	11 December 1905 Pius X	Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro	Did not attempt the journey

Cardinal electors by country

The 53 attending cardinal electors were from 12 countries. The countries with the greatest number of cardinal electors were Italy (thirty), France (six), and, jointly, Germany and Spain (three each).

* Country of elected pope

Cardinal electors by country

Country	Continent	Number
Austria	Europe	2
Belgium	Europe	1
France	Europe	6
Germany	Europe	3
Hungary	Europe	1
Ireland	Europe	1
Italy*	Europe	30
Netherlands	Europe	1
Poland	Europe	2
Portugal	Europe	1
Spain	Europe	3
United Kingdom	Europe	3
Total		53

See also

• Cardinals created by Leo XIII
• Cardinals created by Pius X
• Cardinals created by Benedict XV
• Cardinal electors for the 1914 conclave
• Cardinal electors for the 1939 conclave

References

• "Cardinals in Precedence" (PDF). New York Times. 22 January 1922. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
• Aradi, Zsolt (1958). Pius XI: The Pope and the Man. New York: Hanover House. ISBN 9781787205000. Retrieved 13 November 2017. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) Republished by Muriwai Books, 2017.
• Burkle-Young, Francis A. (2000). Papal Elections in the Age of Transition, 1878-1922. Lexington Books.