| Papal conclave February 1922 | |
|---|---|
| Dates and location | |
| 2–6 February 1922 Sistine Chapel, Apostolic Palace, Rome | |
| Key officials | |
| Dean | Vincenzo Vannutelli |
| Camerlengo | Pietro Gasparri |
| Protopriest | Michael Logue |
| Protodeacon | Gaetano Bisleti |
| Secretary | Luigi Sincero |
| Election | |
| Ballots | 14 |
| Elected pope | |
| Achille Ratti Name taken: Pius XI | |
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The papal conclave held from 2 to 6 February 1922 saw Cardinal Achille Ratti elected to succeed Benedict XV, who had died on 22 January 1922. It took fourteen ballots for the 53 of the 60 cardinals assembled in the Sistine Chapel to elect a new pope. Ratti took the name Pius XI and immediately revived the traditional public blessing from the balcony, Urbi et Orbi ("to the city and to the world"), which his predecessors had eschewed since the loss of Rome to the Italian state in 1870.
The four non-European cardinals did not participate in the conclave. Three of them arrived too late and one did not attempt the journey. Three weeks after his election, Pius XI issued rules extending the time between the death of a pope and the start of the conclave in order to increase the likelihood that cardinals from distant locations could participate in the next conclave.