As the papal conclave will choose a new Pope after Pope Francis' death

Supremacy Pope Francis ended, and as the Catholic Church is sad His deathIt is also looking for the future. Shortly after Saturday burialpapal conclave Must be retained choose your successor and the question is now turning into Which person – And it will be a man, because women cannot be appointed priests in the Catholic Church – they will appear and enter the balcony in the papal regalia to say hello to the crowds, mass on St. Peter's Square on the Vatican.

Below is a look at the conclave, with a step -by -step showdown of how the next Pope will be selected and anoint under the iconic michelgelo mural on the Vatican's Sistine Chapel.

What exactly papal conclave?

The papal conclave is a closely protective collection of radical voters-all, serving cardinals under the age of 80 or for the election of the next Pope.

The exact number varies, but there are currently about 135 voters of cardinals who will convene in the Vatican from all over the world to select Pope Francis' successor.

Of those who are eligible this time, the big majority – 108 of them – were assigned Pope Francis During his 12-year-old papacy. They come from 71 different countries; 10 from the US.

When will the papal conclave start?

The Vatican has not yet announced the date when the conclave begins, but in accordance with the rules of the church it should be within 15-20 days after the Pope's death, which in this case will fall on the first or second week of May.

How does the papal conclave work?

The way this assembly goes to the choice of the next pope is a process that dates from hundreds of years – a complex, choreated procession of rituals and ballots.

On the first day of the papal conclave, the dramatic voters will close from the outside world and start an important task – probably from their own ranks – a person who will become 267 bishops of Rome, better known as the Pope.

On the first day, the cardinals celebrate the morning Mass in St. Peter's Basilica. In the afternoon, they go to the solemn procession in the Sistine Chapel, which was safety to check any forbidden recording devices before their arrival.

For centuries, the dramatic voters have been physically blocked in the Sistine Chapel until they chose a new pontiff, leaving eating and sleeping under the bright masterpiece of Michelangelo Renaissance. These days, they leave a vacation and share food at the Santa Martynic Residence House in the Vatican city, where Francis had his own personal apartment during his pontificate-naked for many days to come to the decision.

After the cardinals fell into the chapel, its large bronze doors are sharply closed and sealed, and the voting of the first day begins.

How does the vote for the new pope work?

Cardinals have already discussed the merits of each papal perspective on the days of “common congregations” in the Vatican before the conclaph, but now the vote is beginning. The choice of the new Pope requires not only most, but also two -thirds plus one vote among the dramatic voters for the candidate for the victory. Pope Benedict XVI who led the church to FrancisThey raised the threshold and called for two -thirds in the church law two days before it left.

Every cardinal must swore the oath of absolute mystery before voting. If they reveal any information from the specific upwards, they will be separated by the Church.

To vote, each cardinal writes the name of the chosen candidate on the ballot, masking the handwriting, and then goes to the altar in the front of the chapel and put the paper on the solemn plate. He then translates the ballot from a plate into a wadding.

As they calculate the manuscript records recorded by three cardinals in the altar, known as pickets, ballots are stored in another urn.

The third urn, made of gilded bronze and silver and decorated with Christian images, is used to cross the ballot in any cardinals, too sick to leave their sleeping rooms in the chapel for counting.

After the first vote is conducted on the first day, the cardinals ballots are placed in one of two small furnaces in the Sistine chapel and burned. The plum of smoke flows into the chimney and into the air above St. Peter's Square, who willingly watched the believers and world media.

If this voting round does not give the winner, the smoke will be black – the sign of the world that the holy throne remains vacant.

How long can the conclave continue?

The voting process will happen the next day when the cardinals will have two ballots in the morning and two in the afternoon. If the morning classes are unconvincing, black smoke will be seen again at lunch – early on the US east.

If there is no winner after lunch voting, more black smoke will pass on the early evening of the Roman sky.

If there are no two -thirds in three days, the vote stops for the day to allow prayer, discussion and “short spiritual persuasion” of the senior cardinal in the order of the deacons.

Then the voting process is restored. The conclave will last until the voters of the Cardinal will agree to the choice for the next pope.

How much time it took to choose a new Pope in the past?

The longest in history was the one that brought Pope Gregory x to the papacy in 1281. It lasted almost three years since the cardinals first began to vote.

The recent results, however, lasted only days. Pope John Paul II needed eight ballots to become a pontiff in 1978. His successor Benedict XVI was selected in the fourth newsletter two days later in 2005.

Francis, in 2013, took only five ballots, the voting takes only 24 hours.

What happens as soon as the conclave will choose the next Pope?

If enough cardinals agree with the candidate and the vote reaches the threshold of two-thirds, the chosen person is asked if he accepts the role. He admits simply saying that the word “I accept” in Latin: “reception”.

At this point, he becomes a new Pope and declare the papal name in front of the cardinals gathered. The most common papal name was John, which was used 21 times. Others, including Simplicius, Hilarius and Zosimus, were only used once. Pope Francis was also the first to choose his papal name.

Then the ballots are burned in the plate, but this time the chemical supplement is left to create a long -awaited Fumat Bianka plume, white smoke.

During some past endings, there was confusion over the color of the smoke, which rises above the chapel, so two endings ago a new tradition began in 2005. In addition to white smoke, the bell is now bell, announceing that there is a new leader in the Roman Catholic Church.

Then the new pope immediately enters the camera adjacent to the Sistine chapel, which will be dressed in papal bathrobe.

Because believers and a curious crowd on St. Peter's Square below, Cardinal Deacon enters the central balcony of St. Peter to present a new pontiff with the famous phrase “Habemus papa” – we have a Pope.

Finally, the new leader of the Catholic Church is coming to the focus to ensure his first blessing.