Sede vacante

Term in Catholic Canon law

For the belief in the invalidity of the post-Vatican II papacy, see Sedevacantism.

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The umbraculum, the arms of the Holy See under sede vacante.

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In the Catholic Church, sede vacante[a][b] is the state during which a diocese or archdiocese is without a prelate installed in office, with the prelate's office being the cathedral.[c] The term is used frequently in reference to a papal interregnum occurring upon the pope's death or resignation.[2]

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Early in church history, the archpriest, archdeacon, and "primicerius of the notaries" in the papal court made up a regency council which governed the sede vacante period.[3]

It was the obligation of the Camerarius (papal chamberlain), the head of the Camera Apostolica, to formally establish the death of the pope.[4] Gradually, this led to the theory that the Camerarius, as the chief of the Roman Curia, should conduct normal business even after the death of the pope, and also conduct the burial and the preparation for the new election. This process was evident with Camerarius Boso Breakspeare.[5] During the long sede vacante of 1268 to 1271, the importance of the Camerarius was so clear that the Cardinals prepared to elect a new one if he died.[5]

The papacy was most recently sede vacante from 21 April[6][7] to 8 May 2025 following the death of Pope Francis.[8]

## Vacancy of the Holy See

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After the death or resignation of a pope, the Holy See enters a period of sede vacante.[9] In this case, the particular church is the Diocese of Rome and the "vacant seat" is the cathedra of Saint John Lateran, the cathedral church of the Bishop of Rome. During this period, the Holy See is administered by a regency of the College of Cardinals.

Sede vacante stamp of 1939.

According to Universi Dominici gregis, the government of the Holy See and the administration of the Catholic Church during sede vacante falls to the College of Cardinals, but in a very limited capacity. At the same time, all the heads of the departments of the Roman Curia "cease to exercise" their offices. The exceptions are the Cardinal Camerlengo, who is charged with managing the properties of the Holy See, and the Major Penitentiary, who continues to exercise his normal role. If either has to do something which normally requires the assent of the pope, he has to submit it to the College of Cardinals. Papal legates continue to exercise their diplomatic roles and both the Vicar General of Rome and the Vicar General for the Vatican City State continue to exercise their pastoral role during this period. The postal administration of the Vatican City State prepares and issues special postage stamps for use during this particular period, known as "sede vacante stamps".

The coat of arms of the Holy See also changes during this period. The papal tiara over the keys is replaced with the umbraculum, or ombrellino in Italian. This symbolizes both the lack of a pope and the governance of the camerlengo over the temporalities of the Holy See. The camerlengo also ornaments his arms with this symbol during this period, which he removes once a pope is elected. Previously during this period, the arms of the camerlengo appeared on commemorative Vatican lira coinage. It now makes its appearance on Vatican euro coins, which are legal tender in all Eurozone states.

The interregnum is highlighted by the funeral Mass of the deceased pope and the general congregations of the College of Cardinals for determining the particulars of the election, and finally culminating in the papal conclave to elect a successor. Once a new pope has been elected, and ordained bishop if necessary, the sede vacante period ends, even before the papal inauguration.

Cardinals present in Rome may wait a maximum of fifteen days after the start of the vacancy before they hold the conclave to elect the new pope, although this period may be extended by five days by a vote of the college. After twenty days have elapsed, they must hold the conclave, even if some cardinals are not present. The period from the death of the pope to the start of the conclave was often shorter but, after Cardinal William O'Connell arrived too late for two conclaves in a row, Pope Pius XI extended the time limit. With the next conclave in 1939, cardinals began to travel by air. Days before his resignation in February 2013, Pope Benedict XVI amended the rules to allow the cardinals to begin the conclave sooner if all voting cardinals are present.[10] Historically, sede vacante periods have often been quite lengthy, lasting many months, or even years, due to deadlocked conclaves.

The longest period without a pope in the last 250 years was the approximately half year from the death in prison of Pius VI in 1799 and the election of Pius VII in Venice in 1800.

### Extended sede vacante periods

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Conclaves and papal elections are generally completed in short order, but there have been several periods when the papacy has been vacant for months or even years.

The following table details sede vacante periods in excess of a year:

Preceding Pope | Subsequent Pope | Beginning | Ending | Duration

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Celestine IV | Innocent IV | 10 November 1241 | 25 June 1243 | 1 year 7 months
Clement IV | Gregory X | 29 November 1268 | 1 September 1271 | 2 years 10 months
Nicholas IV | Celestine V | 4 April 1292 | 5 July 1294 | 2 years 3 months
Clement V | John XXII | 20 April 1314 | 2 August 1316 | 2 years 3 months
Gregory XII | Martin V | 4 July 1415 | 11 November 1417 | 2 years 5 months

### Sede vacante periods since 1799

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Preceding Pope | Subsequent Pope | Beginning | Ending | Duration[11]

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Pius VI | Pius VII | 29 August 1799 | 14 March 1800 | 197 days
Pius VII | Leo XII | 20 August 1823 | 28 September 1823 | 39 days
Leo XII | Pius VIII | 10 February 1829 | 31 March 1829 | 49 days
Pius VIII | Gregory XVI | 30 November 1830 | 2 February 1831 | 63 days
Gregory XVI | Pius IX | 1 June 1846 | 16 June 1846 | 15 days
Pius IX | Leo XIII | 7 February 1878 | 20 February 1878 | 13 days
Leo XIII | Pius X | 20 July 1903 | 4 August 1903 | 15 days
Pius X | Benedict XV | 20 August 1914 | 3 September 1914 | 14 days
Benedict XV | Pius XI | 22 January 1922 | 6 February 1922 | 15 days
Pius XI | Pius XII | 10 February 1939 | 2 March 1939 | 20 days
Pius XII | John XXIII | 9 October 1958 | 28 October 1958 | 19 days
John XXIII | Paul VI | 3 June 1963 | 21 June 1963 | 18 days
Paul VI | John Paul I | 6 August 1978 | 26 August 1978 | 20 days
John Paul I | John Paul II | 28 September 1978 | 16 October 1978 | 18 days
John Paul II | Benedict XVI | 2 April 2005 | 19 April 2005 | 17 days
Benedict XVI | Francis | 28 February 2013 | 13 March 2013 | 13 days
Francis | Leo XIV | 21 April 2025 | 8 May 2025 | 17 days

## Catholic dioceses and archdioceses

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The term sede vacante can be applied to Catholic dioceses, archdioceses, and eparchies outside of Rome. In such cases, this means that the particular diocesan bishop or archbishop has either died, resigned, been transferred to a different diocese or archdiocese, or lost his office and a successor has not yet been installed or assumed office. If there is a coadjutor bishop for the diocese, then this period does not take place, as the coadjutor bishop or archbishop immediately succeeds to the episcopal see.

Within eight days after the episcopal see is known to be vacant, the college of consultors (or the cathedral chapter in some countries)[12] is obliged to elect a diocesan or archdiocesan administrator.[13] The administrator they choose must be a priest or bishop who is at least 35 years old.[14]

If the college of consultors fails to elect a qualifying person within the time allotted, the choice of an administrator passes to the metropolitan archbishop or, if the metropolitan see is vacant, to the senior-most by appointment of the suffragan bishops. The pope can also decide to name an administrator himself to a diocese or archdiocese instead of waiting for the college of consultors of a particular diocese, metropolitan archbishop or the senior-most by appointment of the bishops within the ecclesiastical province to appoint a diocesan administrator where it is then called as apostolic administrator. Usually, the emeritus bishop will be appointed in such a case. If the appointed apostolic administrator is a diocesan bishop or archbishop of a diocese or archdiocese, then he governs two dioceses which are his own and the vacant one, with the latter being temporarily while a successor of a vacant diocese is not yet installed or assumed office.[15]

Before the election of the administrator of a vacant see, the governance of the see is entrusted, with the powers of a vicar general, to the auxiliary bishop, if there is one, or to the senior among them, if there are several, otherwise to the college of consultors as a whole. The administrator has greater powers, essentially those of a bishop or archbishop except for matters excepted by the nature of the matter or expressly by law.[16] Canon law subjects his activity to various legal restrictions and to special supervision by the college of consultors (as for example canons 272 and 485).

Vicars general and episcopal vicars lose their powers sede vacante if they are not bishops or archbishops;[17] the vicars that are themselves having both positions retain the powers they had before the see fell vacant, which they are to exercise under the authority of the administrator.[18] However, vicar generals retain their duties and responsibilities of the office—specifically during sede vacante serving as right-hand to the diocesan or apostolic administrator to establish continuity—until the succeeding bishop is installed or assumes office on a diocese.

A coat of arms of the last bishop or archbishop of a diocese or archdiocese, either the arms of a transferred, retired or dead previous bishop or the one as bishop of a transferred diocese, may also be used during sede vacante period to indicate and establish continuity while awaiting for the installation of a successor. Once a successor is installed or assumed office which ends the sede vacante period, the coat of arms of a new bishop will replace his predecessor's arms.

The name of a bishop or an archbishop is not mentioned in the Eucharistic Prayer of the Mass while a successor is not yet installed or assumed office. After mentioning the Pope, the celebrant will either immediately mention the statement "and all the clergy", skipping the name of a bishop or generally stating all the bishops as "the Order of Bishops". If a locally appointed diocesan administrator or an apostolic administrator is a bishop, however, his name is mentioned ("our Administrator", or simply as "our Bishop") as if a diocese has a prelate installed in office.

Additionally, the administrator may not sit on the cathedra even if he is a bishop or an archbishop, as it symbolizes the office of a full-time or mainstay prelate, and the former only serves as the temporary head of a diocese while a successor is not yet installed into office. He may only use a chair reserved for the main celebrant of a Mass.

## Other uses

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The term has been adopted in sedevacantism, an extreme[19][20][21] strand of the Catholic traditionalist movement. Sedevacantists believe that all popes since the Second Vatican Council have been heretics, and that therefore the see of Rome is vacant.

The term sede vacante is also used in the Anglican Communion, including in the canon law of the Church of England.[22] When a diocesan see is vacant, its temporalities vest in the Crown as guardian, including the bishop's right of patronage to benefices. The exercise of this is termed the Crown's sede vacante patronage.[23] It is also used in other contexts where there is a vacancy in a see.[24][25][26]

## See also

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## Notes

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1. ^ Latin pronunciation: [ˈseːde vaˈkante], lit. 'with the chair [being] vacant'
2. ^ An ablative absolute construction; the phrase in the nominative case is sedes vacans. The term in Ancient Greek: εν χηρεία, romanized: en chēreía, lit. 'in widowhood'.[1]
3. ^ Some are also used as a place of residence if the prelate lives within the cathedral compound.

## References

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1. ^ "Κρήτη: Εν χηρεία η θέση του Αρχιεπισκόπου - Ξεκινά η διαδικασία διαδοχής" [The See of the Archbishop in widowhood: the succession process begins] (in Greek). parapolitica.gr 98.1 FM. 12 March 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
2. ^ Christoph Strack (22 April 2025). "What happens after a pope dies?". dw.com. Retrieved 18 May 2025.
3. ^ Noble, Thomas F. X. (1984). The Republic of St. Peter : the birth of the Papal State, 680-825. Philadelphia. p. 207\. ISBN 0-8122-7917-4. OCLC 10100806.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
4. ^ Massimo Faggioli. "cardinal camerlengo". britannica.com. Retrieved 18 May 2025.
5. ^ a b Visceglia, Maria Antonietta (1 January 2011). The Pope's Household And Court In The Early Modern Age. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-20623-6.
6. ^ "Sede Vacante & Conclave 2025". about.brepolis.ne. 21 April 2025. Retrieved 18 May 2025.
7. ^ Philip Pullella (7 May 2025). "What's next after Pope Francis' death? Funeral and succession explained". reuters.com. Retrieved 18 May 2025.
8. ^ Theo Relly (9 May 2025). "A timeline in events: From the death of Pope Francis to the election of Pope Leo XIV". c-mw.net. Retrieved 18 May 2025.
9. ^ Jonah Mckeown (23 April 2025). "EXPLAINER: 'Sede vacante' and 'interregnum' — what do they mean?". ewtnvatican.com. Retrieved 18 May 2025.
10. ^ "Motu proprio Normas nonnullas". Vatican.va. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
11. ^ As is usual in English, in canon law also (Code of Canon Law, canon 203), the initial day is not counted in calculating the length of a period, unless the period began with the beginning of the day.
12. ^ See Codex Iuris Canonici Canon 502 § 3 (noting that an episcopal conference can transfer the functions of the consultors to the cathedral chapter).
13. ^ "Code of Canon Law, canon 421 §1". Intratext.com. 4 May 2007. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
14. ^ Code of Canon Law, canon 425 §1. The word used (sacerdos) applies also to a bishop, not just a priest.
15. ^ "Code of Canon Law, canons 421 §2 and 425 §3". Intratext.com. 4 May 2007. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
16. ^ "Code of Canon Law, canons 426-427". Intratext.com. 4 May 2007. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
17. ^ Codex Iuris Canonici Canon 481 § 1.
18. ^ Codex Iuris Canonici Canon 409 § 2.
19. ^ Eugene V. Gallagher, W. Michael Ashcraft (editors), Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America (Greenwood Publishing Group 2006 ISBN 978-0-31305078-7), p. 16
20. ^ William J. Collinge, Historical Dictionary of Catholicism (Scarecrow Press 2012 ISBN 978-0-81085755-1), p. 434
21. ^ Mary Jo Weaver, R. Scott Appleby (editors), Being Right: Conservative Catholics in America (Indiana University Press 1995 ISBN 978-0-25332922-6), p. 257
22. ^ Canon C.19, Church of England, https://www.churchofengland.org/about/governance/legal-resources/canons-church-england/section-c
23. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2023.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
24. ^ Sede vacante Wills: A Calendar of Wills Proved Before the Commissary of the Prior and Chapter of Christ Church, Canterbury During Vacancies in the Primacy (Cross & Jackman, 1914)
25. ^ Taylor, Jenan (9 October 2024). "2024 Presidential Address to the Melbourne Synod". The Melbourne Anglican.
26. ^ Design, UBC Web. "The Church of The Annunciation Anglican Church | Churches Australia". www.churchesaustralia.org.

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