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Meaning of "was elected pope"

was elected pope: the process in which a person is chosen as the head of the Roman Catholic Church through a formal voting procedure known as a papal conclave, typically referring to the specific ascension to the papacy in English

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I remember on the day he was elected pope.
Pope Benedict XV was elected Pope only a few weeks after the start of the conflict.
On the following accessus Barbo received three additional votes and was elected Pope.
Some years later he was elected Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria.
This was the last time a non-cardinal was elected pope.
Innocent was elected Pope.
Cervini was not, however, consecrated bishop until the day he himself was elected pope.
Plus VIII, who was elected pope in the following March, called him to an audience.
Fifteen years later, he was elected pope.
He was elected pope on….
Francis's sympathies existed long before he was elected Pope.
Benedetto Gaetani was elected pope the next day, Christmas Eve.
You do not know why Cardinal Bergolio was elected Pope Francis?
Pope Benedict IX was elected pope three times, therefore the number of pontificates is actually 266.
Roughly a year after becoming a cardinal he was elected pope at the age of 66.

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Ratti was elected pope on the conclave 's fourteenth ballot on 6 February reportedly receiving 38 votes.
Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI was elected pope 11 years ago today.
He was elected pope in the Catholic Church 's last non-conclave papal election, ending a two-year impasse.
Anastasius of the noble Roman Maximi family was elected Pope in 399.
Benedict XVI was elected Pope at the age of 78.
At the scrutiny that evening, Rospigliosi received 61 votes and was elected Pope Clement IX.
John Paul II was elected pope when he was 58 years old.
Much has been said about the possibility that Cardinal Siri was elected Pope in 1958.
Pope Victor was elected pope less than 200 years after Jesus ascended into heaven.
Why does the pope his name? One in 553 was elected pope whose name was Mercury.
Leo was elected pope around June 928, during a period of anarchy.
Cardinal Konrad von Urach, O. Cist ., was elected pope but he declined.
He was elected pope around June 928, during a period of anarchy.
Edward finally got his revenge on Winchelsey in 1305, when Clement V was elected pope.
John Paul II was elected Pope 30 years ago today.
These facts were universally known when Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli was elected Pope on March 2, 1939.
One in 553 was elected pope whose name was Mercury.
He was elected pope in 1261 and chose the name of Pope Urban IV.
Roncalli was elected pope in 1958 and took the name John XXIII.
He was elected Pope in 1492 under the name of Pope Alexander VI.
In 1154 he was elected Pope Adrian IV, the only English Pope there has ever been.
He was elected pope in December 1334, succeeding John XXII under the name of Benedict XII.

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