Cardinal electors for the 1939 papal conclave

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The cardinal electors in the 1939 papal conclave numbered 62 and all of them participated. They are arranged by region, and within each alphabetically.

Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, Cardinal Secretary of State, was elected Pope and adopted the name Pius XII.
Nationality of Participating Cardinal Electors
Country Number of Electors
Italy
35
France 6
Germany 4
Spain, United States 3
1

Roman Curia

  1. Apostolic Chancery
  2. Pontifical Household
  3. Holy Office
  4. Federico Cattani Amadori, Secretary of Apostolic Signatura
  5. Enrico Gasparri, Prefect of Apostolic Signatura
  6. Pietro Fumasoni Biondi, Prefect of Propagation of the Faith
  7. Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, Dean of the College of Cardinals
  8. Discipline of the Sacraments
  9. Religious
  10. Lorenzo Lauri, Major Penitentiary
  11. Council
  12. Domenico Mariani, Provost of the Administration of the Wealth of the Holy See
  13. Vatican Secret Archives
  14. Eugenio Pacelli, Secretary of State, Camerlengo (was elected Pope and chose the name Pius XII)
  15. Consistorial
  16. Rites
  17. Holy Office
  18. Federico Tedeschini, Datary of His Holiness
  19. Oriental Churches
    (origin: France)
  20. Rites

Europe

Italy

  1. Archbishop of Naples
  2. Elia Dalla Costa, Archbishop of Florence
  3. Territorial Prelate Emeritus of Pompei
  4. St. John Lateran Basilica
  5. Maurilio Fossati, OSsCGN, Archbishop of Turin
  6. Luigi Lavitrano, Archbishop of Palermo
  7. Francesco Marchetti-Selvaggiani, Vicar General of Rome
  8. Francesco Marmaggi, Nuncio to Poland
  9. Canon Law
  10. Archbishop of Bologna
  11. Ermenegildo Pellegrinetti, Nuncio Emeritus to Yugoslavia
  12. Adeodato Giovanni Piazza, OCD, Patriarch of Venice
  13. Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs
  14. Enrico Sibilia, Nuncio to Austria

France

  1. Institut Catholique de Paris
  2. Archbishop of Lyon
  3. Bishop of Lille
  4. Archbishop of Reims
  5. Archbishop of Paris

Germany

  1. Archbishop of Breslau
  2. Archbishop of Munich and Freising
  3. Theodor Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna
  4. Karl Joseph Schulte, Archbishop of Cologne

Spain

  1. Archbishop of Tarragona
  2. Archbishop of Toledo
  3. Pedro Segura y Sáenz, Archbishop of Seville

Belgium

  1. Archbishop of Mechelen

Czechoslovakia

  1. Karel Kašpar, Archbishop of Prague

Hungary

  1. Archbishop of Esztergom

Poland

  1. and Poznań

Portugal

  1. Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira, Patriarch of Lisbon

United Kingdom and Ireland

  1. Arthur Hinsley, Archbishop of Westminster (England, United Kingdom)
  2. Archbishop of Armagh (archdiocese contained territory in both Ireland/Éire and Northern Ireland
    )

North America

United States

  1. Dennis Joseph Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadelphia
  2. William Henry O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston
  3. George Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago

Canada

  1. Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, OMI, Archbishop of Quebec

South America

Argentina

  1. Santiago Copello, Archbishop of Buenos Aires

Brazil

  1. Sebastião da Silveira Cintra, Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro

Asia

Syria

  1. Patriarch of Antioch of the Syrians (Cardinal Tappuni was born in Mosul, located in modern-day Iraq
    )

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