Cardinal electors for the 1939 papal conclave explained

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

Nationality of Participating Cardinal Electors
CountryNumber of Electors
Italy35
France6
Germany4
Spain, United States3
Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czechoslovakia, United Kingdom, Hungary, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Syria1

Roman Curia

  1. Tommaso Boggiani, OP, Chancellor of Apostolic Chancery
  2. Camillo Caccia-Dominioni, Prefect of Pontifical Household
  3. Nicola Canali, Assessor of 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. Domenico Jorio, Prefect of Discipline of the Sacraments
  9. Vincenzo Lapuma, Prefect of Religious
  10. Lorenzo Lauri, Major Penitentiary
  11. Luigi Maglione, Prefect of Council
  12. Domenico Mariani, Provost of the Administration of the Wealth of the Holy See
  13. Giovanni Mercati, Librarian of Vatican Library, Archivist of Vatican Secret Archives
  14. Eugenio Pacelli, Secretary of State, Camerlengo (was elected Pope and chose the name Pius XII)
  15. Raffaele Rossi, OCD, Secretary of Consistorial
  16. Carlo Salotti, Prefect of Rites
  17. Donato Sbarretti, Secretary of Holy Office
  18. Federico Tedeschini, Datary of His Holiness
  19. Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant, Secretary of Oriental Churches (origin: France)
  20. Alessandro Verde, Secretary of Rites

Europe

Italy

  1. Alessio Ascalesi, CPPS, Archbishop of Naples
  2. Pietro Boetto, SJ, Archbishop of Genoa
  3. Elia Dalla Costa, Archbishop of Florence
  4. Carlo Cremonesi, Territorial Prelate Emeritus of Pompei
  5. Angelo Dolci, Archpriest of St. John Lateran Basilica
  6. Maurilio Fossati, OSsCGN, Archbishop of Turin
  7. Luigi Lavitrano, Archbishop of Palermo
  8. Francesco Marchetti-Selvaggiani, Vicar General of Rome
  9. Francesco Marmaggi, Nuncio to Poland
  10. Massimo Massimi, President of Codification of Oriental Canon Law
  11. Giovanni Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano, Archbishop of Bologna
  12. Ermenegildo Pellegrinetti, Nuncio Emeritus to Yugoslavia
  13. Adeodato Giovanni Piazza, OCD, Patriarch of Venice
  14. Giuseppe Pizzardo, Secretary of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs
  15. Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, OSB, Archbishop of Milan
  16. Enrico Sibilia, Nuncio to Austria

France

  1. Alfred-Henri-Marie Baudrillart, IOSFN, Rector of Institut Catholique de Paris
  2. Pierre-Marie Gerlier, Archbishop of Lyon
  3. Achille Liénart, Bishop of Lille
  4. Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, Archbishop of Reims
  5. Jean Verdier, PSS, Archbishop of Paris

Germany

  1. Adolf Bertram, Archbishop of Breslau
  2. Michael von Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich and Freising
  3. Theodor Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna
  4. Karl Joseph Schulte, Archbishop of Cologne

Spain

  1. Francisco Vidal y Barraquer, Archbishop of Tarragona
  2. Isidro Goma y Tomas, Archbishop of Toledo
  3. Pedro Segura y Sáenz, Archbishop of Seville

Belgium

  1. Jozef-Ernest van Roey, Archbishop of Mechelen

Czechoslovakia

  1. Karel Kašpar, Archbishop of Prague

Hungary

  1. Jusztinián György Serédi, OSB, Archbishop of Esztergom

Poland

  1. August Hlond, SDB, Archbishop of Gniezno and Poznań

Portugal

  1. Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira, Patriarch of Lisbon

United Kingdom and Ireland

  1. Arthur Hinsley, Archbishop of Westminster (England, United Kingdom)
  2. Joseph MacRory, 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. Ignatius Gabriel I Tappuni, Patriarch of Antioch of the Syrians (Cardinal Tappuni was born in Mosul, located in modern-day Iraq)

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