Papabile

Papabile (pl. Papabili or papabiles in French version) is a term used originally by the vaticanists and maintaining usually used in several languages to appoint a cardinal likely to collect sufficient voice at the time of a Conclave to be elected pope.

Among the cardinals papabili who were then elected pope one can quote Eugenio Pacelli (Pie XII), Giovanni Battista Montini (Paul VI), and Joseph Ratzinger (Benoit XVI).

Papabiles elected popes

Francesco Saverio Castiglioni (elected: Black and white VIII in 1829)
Gioachino Pecci (elected: Leon XIII in 1878)
Giacomo della Chiesa (elected: Benoit XV in 1914)
Eugenio Pacelli (elected: Pie XII in 1939)
Giovanni Battista Montini (elected: Paul VI in 1963)
Joseph Ratzinger (elected: Benoit XVI in 2005)

Papabiles not elected

To be perceived papabile does not guarantee to be elected pope, as follows:

Giuseppe Siri
Giovanni Benelli
Bartolomeo Pacca
Emmanuele de Gregorio
Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro
Dionigi Tettamanzi
Bernardin Gantin

Non-papabiles elected pope

Year della Genga (elected: Leon XII in 1823)
Bartolomeo Alberto Mauro Cappellari (elected: Gregoire XVI in 1831)
Giuseppe Sarto (elected: Black and white X in 1903)
Achilles Ratti (elected: Black and white XI in 1922)
Angelo Giuseppe Cardinal Roncalli (elected: Jean XXIII in 1958)
Albino Luciani (elected: Jean Paul I in 1978)
Karol Wojtyła (elected: Jean Paul II in 1978)

Quotation

A proverb running to the Vatican known as " Who between pope with the conclave, out of spring cardinal". One means by this skew that the favorite of the election is not always the elected official.

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