Cardinal electors for the papal conclave, 1939

**Location of Cardinal Electors**
Country	Number of Electors
Italy	35
France	6
Germany, Spain, United States	3
Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czechoslovakia, England, Hungary, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Syria	1

The following were the cardinal electors in the 1939 papal conclave. Arranged by region (not by the linguistic groups commonly used in universal church senacles), and within each alphabetically (not the official order of precedence, which is not relevant to conclave procedure). All sixty-two cardinals participated in the conclave.

Roman Curia

Tommaso Boggiani, OP, Chancellor of Apostolic Chancery
Camillo Caccia-Dominioni, Prefect of Pontifical Household
Nicola Canali, Assessor of Holy Office
Federico Cattani Amadori, Secretary of Apostolic Signatura
Enrico Gasparri, Prefect of Apostolic Signatura
Pietro Fumasoni Biondi, Prefect of Propagation of the Faith
Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, Dean of the College of Cardinals
Domenico Jorio, Prefect of Discipline of the Sacraments
Vincenzo Lapuma, Prefect of Religious
Lorenzo Lauri, Major Penitentiary
Luigi Maglione, Prefect of Council
Domenico Mariani, Provost of the Administration of the Wealth of the Holy See
Giovanni Mercati, Librarian of Vatican Library, Archivist of Vatican Secret Archives
Eugenio Pacelli, Secretary of State, Camerlengo (was elected Pope and chose the name Pius XII)
Raffaele Rossi, OCD, Secretary of Consistorial
Carlo Salotti, Prefect of Rites
Donato Sbarretti, Secretary of Holy Office
Federico Tedeschini, Datary of His Holiness
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant, Secretary of Oriental Churches
Alessandro Verde, Secretary of Rites

Europe

Italy

France

Germany

Spain

North America

United States

Canada

Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, OMI, Archbishop of Quebec

South America

Argentina

Santiago Copello, Archbishop of Buenos Aires

Brazil

Sebastião da Silveira Cintra, Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro

Asia

Syria

Ignatius Gabriel I Tappuni, Patriarch of Antioch of the Syrians (Cardinal Tappuni was born in Mosul, located in modern-day Iraq)

References

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