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After that, however, the church decided to wait at least 10 days before the first vote; later that was stretched to 15 days to give all cardinals time to get to Rome. The quickest conclave observing the day wait rule appears to have been the election of Julius II, who was elected in just a few hours, according to Vatican historian Ambrogio Piazzoni.
Benedict XVI was 78 when he was elected in The frequency of conclaves has slowed considerably since the s, as the graph below suggests. The chart below shows data since , as available. The orange line shows the length of the conclave in days; the blue line, the number of electors voting cardinals ; the red line, the number of ballots. Since , the average length of a conclave has been This difference is partly due to rules changes that facilitated votes, but it is mostly due to there having been a number of conclaves that stretched for a number of months.
The conclave of December lasted until the following March, probably ruining the cardinals' celebration of the new century. The longest was in , stretching some days. Since , the average number of ballots cast is 13, while the median is 6. Within a few years, he had established the conclave, a closed-door summit to be convened upon his death at which the cardinals would be locked up together until they elected a new pope.
The rules were suspended soon after, but they were reinstated following another protracted election that took place from April to July Since , no conclave has lasted longer than a week. In , one group of cardinals selected two different popes. Upon his death two years later, angry crowds demanded an Italian successor rather than a French one who might head back to Avignon. But when the new pope proved overly confrontational, calling one cardinal a half-wit and coming to blows with another, the cardinals declared the election invalid.
They held a second conclave five months after the first one, deciding this time around on Clement VII. The two popes, one in Avignon and one in Rome, both claimed to be the true leader of the church, going so far as to excommunicate each other. A council held in Pisa in sought to bridge the divide, but it only succeeded in adding a third pope to the mix.
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