Nicholas IV dies after a 4-year pontificate in Rome

When

4 Apr 1292

Kind

Event

Coordinates

43.11° N, 12.39° E

Description

Nicholas IV dies after a 4-year pontificate in Rome. The cardinals assemble at Perugia to elect a new pope (1292–1294 papal election).

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 1292–1294 papal election.

Election of Catholic Pope Celestine V

The 1292–94 papal election, was the last papal election which did not take the form of a papal conclave. After the death of Pope Nicholas IV on 4 April 1292, the eleven surviving cardinals deliberated for more than two years before electing the third of six non-cardinals to be elected pope during the Late Middle Ages: Pietro Angelerio da Morrone, who took the name Pope Celestine V.

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