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In the third round of voting in Rome, the Conclave of Cardinals at the Vatican failed to elect the 267th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, as the black smoke rising from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel indicated at 6.20 pm (local time in Greece).
The cardinals will now take a short break and reconvene to vote for a fourth time in two days. Cardinals of the Catholic Church cast their first vote for a new pope on Wednesday evening, but black smoke rising from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel indicated that no contender had reached the necessary majority yet.
Black smoke rose for a second time from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican shortly before 1 p.m. on Thursday (local Greek time), signaling that the conclave of Cardinals has not yet elected the 267th Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
The smoke, a centuries-old tradition, indicates that no candidate received the required two-thirds majority during the latest round of voting by the College of Cardinals.
Cardinals of the Catholic Church cast their first vote for a new pope on Wednesday evening, but black smoke rising from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel indicated that no contender had reached the necessary majority yet.
The papal election is continuing on Thursday with three more rounds of voting. A candidate needs to attract at least 89 votes, or a two-thirds majority of the 133 cardinal-electors, to become the successor to the late Pope Francis as leader of the global Catholic Church with its 1.4 billion faithful.
The late Pope Francis, who appointed the majority of the cardinals participating in the current vote, has created a more international conclave to select his successor compared to the one that elected him a decade ago.
Most conclaves in the modern era have taken only two or three days to elect a pope.
