AFP5 May 2025 | 12:24
All 133 cardinals voting in conclave are now in Rome: Vatican
They will gather in secret in the Sistine Chapel starting at 4:30 pm (1430 GMT) on Wednesday, and will keep voting until one choice among them has a two-thirds majority, and becomes head of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.
Prelates (bottom) attend the Ninth Novemdiale mass at St Peter's Basilica in The Vatican, on 4 May 2025. Picture: Alberto PIZZOLI/AFP
VATICAN CITY - All of the 133 Catholic cardinals who will vote to choose a successor to Pope Francis are now in Rome ahead of the conclave starting this week, the Vatican said Monday.
They will gather in secret in the Sistine Chapel starting at 4:30 pm (1430 GMT) on Wednesday, and will keep voting until one choice among them has a two-thirds majority, and becomes head of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.