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| Office | Pope |
| Honorific | Pope - Abbr: Pope |
| Type | General Election |
| Filing Deadline | 00, 0000 - 12:00pm Central |
| Polls Open | June 16, 1846 - 06:00am Central |
| Polls Close | June 16, 1846 - 11:00pm Central |
| Term Start | June 21, 1846 - 12:00pm |
| Term End | February 07, 1878 - 12:00pm |
| Contributor | Jake |
| Last Modified | Jake January 04, 2005 01:51am |
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His election to the papacy following the death of Pope Gregory XVI was the result of a factional division in the conclave between conservatives and modernisers. Mastai-Ferretti was the liberal candidate, and on June 16, at the fourth scrutiny, he was elected - a key conservative had arrived too late to vote for an alternative candidate and thus deny Mastai-Ferretti a majority in the ballot. Mastai-Ferretti took the name Pius IX in memory of Pope Pius VII, an early benefactor to him. He was crowned on June 21.
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