PHOTO COLLECTION: Vatican Conclave
PHOTO COLLECTION: Vatican Conclave
Cardinal Peter Erdo arrives to lead a mass at his titular church of Santa Francesca Romana in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu arrives to celebrate Mass at his titular church, San Gabriele Arcangelo all’Acqua Traversa three days before the conclave to elect the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Catholic Templari Oggi or “Templars Today” association members parade along the city centre to arrive to St. Mary and the Martyrs Basilica, or Agrippa Pantheon, in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu celebrates Mass at his titular church, San Gabriele Arcangelo all’Acqua Traversa three days before the conclave to elect the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu celebrates Mass at his titular church, San Gabriele Arcangelo all’Acqua Traversa three days before the conclave to elect the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
From left, cardinals Fernando Natalio Chomalí Garib, Anthony Poola, Charles Maung Bo and Francis Xavier Kriengsak Kovithavanij leave the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025, after attending a session of the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, foreground, walks in downtown Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, center, greets faithful after a mass at Santa Maria ai Monti church in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Faithful gather for a rosary prayer and a candlelight procession with the image of Mater Ecclesiae in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican,Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Cardinal Lazarus You Heung-sik before attending a rosary prayer and a candlelight procession with the image of Mater Ecclesiae in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Faithful gather for a rosary prayer and a candlelight procession with the image of Mater Ecclesiae in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican,Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
In the foreground center to right: Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, Cardinal Dean Giovanni Battista Re, and Cardinal Lazarus You Heung-sik attend a rosary prayer and a candlelight procession with the image of Mater Ecclesiae in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Journalists look at a photograph of the conclave where late Pope Francis was elected on March 13, 2013, and displayed inside the Borgia Apartments at the Vatican Museums during a press tour, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Cardinal Giuseppe Petrocchi, center, leaves at the end of a mass on the eight of nine days of mourning for late Pope Francis, in St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Cardinal Peter Erdo leads a mass at his titular church of Santa Francesca Romana in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline prepares in the sacristy of Santa Maria ai Monti church before celebrating Mass in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, center, prepares in the sacristy of Santa Maria ai Monti church before celebrating Mass in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
A priest removes his chasuble in the sacristy of Santa Maria ai Monti Church after Mass in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Cardinal Francis Leo leaves the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025, after attending a session of the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Cardinal arrives at the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025, to attend the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
A view of St. Lorenzo square taken from the “Loggia dei Papi” of the Palace of the Popes that hosted the longest conclave in the Catholic Church’s history, in Viterbo, Italy, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino )
An image of the cardinals who voted in the longest conclave in the Catholic Church’s history, is carved on the bronze door of St. Lorenzo Cathedral, in Viterbo, Italy, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino )
A tourist enters the Palace of the Popes that hosted the longest conclave in the Catholic Church’s history, in Viterbo, Italy, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino )
Cardinal Vincent Nichols attends an interview at the Venerable English College, in Rome, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
From left to right: religious memorabilia depicting Pope John XXIII, John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI in Rome, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
A scale car of the popemobile in Rome, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Guatemalan Cardinal Alvaro Ramazzini speaks during an interview with Associated Press at the headquarters of the Scalabrinian congregation, in Rome, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
In this image taken on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, and made available Saturday, May 3, 2025, by Vatican Media, workers and restorers prepare the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, where the upcoming conclave will start May 7. (Vatican Media via AP)
In this image taken on Monday, April 28, 2025, and made available Saturday, May 3, 2025, by Vatican Media, workers prepare the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, where the upcoming conclave will start May 7, backdropped by Michelangelo Buonarroti’s fresco ‘The Last Judgement’. (Vatican Media via AP)
Cardinal Timothy Peter Joseph Radcliffe arrives at the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025, to attend the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Firefighters place the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather to elect the new pope, at the Vatican, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Firefighters place the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather to elect the new pope, at the Vatican, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinal Robert Sarah arrives at the Vatican, Friday, May 2, 2025, to attend the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Firefighters place the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather to elect the new pope, at the Vatican, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinal Peter Erdo arrives to lead a mass at his titular church of Santa Francesca Romana in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Cardinal Peter Erdo arrives to lead a mass at his titular church of Santa Francesca Romana in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu arrives to celebrate Mass at his titular church, San Gabriele Arcangelo all’Acqua Traversa three days before the conclave to elect the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu arrives to celebrate Mass at his titular church, San Gabriele Arcangelo all’Acqua Traversa three days before the conclave to elect the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Catholic Templari Oggi or “Templars Today” association members parade along the city centre to arrive to St. Mary and the Martyrs Basilica, or Agrippa Pantheon, in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Catholic Templari Oggi or “Templars Today” association members parade along the city centre to arrive to St. Mary and the Martyrs Basilica, or Agrippa Pantheon, in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu celebrates Mass at his titular church, San Gabriele Arcangelo all’Acqua Traversa three days before the conclave to elect the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu celebrates Mass at his titular church, San Gabriele Arcangelo all’Acqua Traversa three days before the conclave to elect the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu celebrates Mass at his titular church, San Gabriele Arcangelo all’Acqua Traversa three days before the conclave to elect the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu celebrates Mass at his titular church, San Gabriele Arcangelo all’Acqua Traversa three days before the conclave to elect the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
From left, cardinals Fernando Natalio Chomalí Garib, Anthony Poola, Charles Maung Bo and Francis Xavier Kriengsak Kovithavanij leave the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025, after attending a session of the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
From left, cardinals Fernando Natalio Chomalí Garib, Anthony Poola, Charles Maung Bo and Francis Xavier Kriengsak Kovithavanij leave the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025, after attending a session of the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, foreground, walks in downtown Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, foreground, walks in downtown Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, center, greets faithful after a mass at Santa Maria ai Monti church in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, center, greets faithful after a mass at Santa Maria ai Monti church in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Faithful gather for a rosary prayer and a candlelight procession with the image of Mater Ecclesiae in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican,Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Faithful gather for a rosary prayer and a candlelight procession with the image of Mater Ecclesiae in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican,Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Cardinal Lazarus You Heung-sik before attending a rosary prayer and a candlelight procession with the image of Mater Ecclesiae in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Cardinal Lazarus You Heung-sik before attending a rosary prayer and a candlelight procession with the image of Mater Ecclesiae in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Faithful gather for a rosary prayer and a candlelight procession with the image of Mater Ecclesiae in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican,Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Faithful gather for a rosary prayer and a candlelight procession with the image of Mater Ecclesiae in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican,Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
In the foreground center to right: Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, Cardinal Dean Giovanni Battista Re, and Cardinal Lazarus You Heung-sik attend a rosary prayer and a candlelight procession with the image of Mater Ecclesiae in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
In the foreground center to right: Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, Cardinal Dean Giovanni Battista Re, and Cardinal Lazarus You Heung-sik attend a rosary prayer and a candlelight procession with the image of Mater Ecclesiae in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Journalists look at a photograph of the conclave where late Pope Francis was elected on March 13, 2013, and displayed inside the Borgia Apartments at the Vatican Museums during a press tour, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Journalists look at a photograph of the conclave where late Pope Francis was elected on March 13, 2013, and displayed inside the Borgia Apartments at the Vatican Museums during a press tour, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Cardinal Giuseppe Petrocchi, center, leaves at the end of a mass on the eight of nine days of mourning for late Pope Francis, in St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Cardinal Giuseppe Petrocchi, center, leaves at the end of a mass on the eight of nine days of mourning for late Pope Francis, in St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Cardinal Peter Erdo leads a mass at his titular church of Santa Francesca Romana in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Cardinal Peter Erdo leads a mass at his titular church of Santa Francesca Romana in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline prepares in the sacristy of Santa Maria ai Monti church before celebrating Mass in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline prepares in the sacristy of Santa Maria ai Monti church before celebrating Mass in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, center, prepares in the sacristy of Santa Maria ai Monti church before celebrating Mass in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, center, prepares in the sacristy of Santa Maria ai Monti church before celebrating Mass in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
A priest removes his chasuble in the sacristy of Santa Maria ai Monti Church after Mass in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
A priest removes his chasuble in the sacristy of Santa Maria ai Monti Church after Mass in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Cardinal Francis Leo leaves the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025, after attending a session of the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Cardinal Francis Leo leaves the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025, after attending a session of the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Cardinal arrives at the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025, to attend the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Cardinal arrives at the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025, to attend the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
A view of St. Lorenzo square taken from the “Loggia dei Papi” of the Palace of the Popes that hosted the longest conclave in the Catholic Church’s history, in Viterbo, Italy, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino )
A view of St. Lorenzo square taken from the “Loggia dei Papi” of the Palace of the Popes that hosted the longest conclave in the Catholic Church’s history, in Viterbo, Italy, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino )
An image of the cardinals who voted in the longest conclave in the Catholic Church’s history, is carved on the bronze door of St. Lorenzo Cathedral, in Viterbo, Italy, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino )
An image of the cardinals who voted in the longest conclave in the Catholic Church’s history, is carved on the bronze door of St. Lorenzo Cathedral, in Viterbo, Italy, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino )
A tourist enters the Palace of the Popes that hosted the longest conclave in the Catholic Church’s history, in Viterbo, Italy, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino )
A tourist enters the Palace of the Popes that hosted the longest conclave in the Catholic Church’s history, in Viterbo, Italy, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino )
Cardinal Vincent Nichols attends an interview at the Venerable English College, in Rome, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Cardinal Vincent Nichols attends an interview at the Venerable English College, in Rome, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
From left to right: religious memorabilia depicting Pope John XXIII, John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI in Rome, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
From left to right: religious memorabilia depicting Pope John XXIII, John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI in Rome, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
A scale car of the popemobile in Rome, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
A scale car of the popemobile in Rome, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Guatemalan Cardinal Alvaro Ramazzini speaks during an interview with Associated Press at the headquarters of the Scalabrinian congregation, in Rome, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Guatemalan Cardinal Alvaro Ramazzini speaks during an interview with Associated Press at the headquarters of the Scalabrinian congregation, in Rome, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
In this image taken on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, and made available Saturday, May 3, 2025, by Vatican Media, workers and restorers prepare the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, where the upcoming conclave will start May 7. (Vatican Media via AP)
In this image taken on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, and made available Saturday, May 3, 2025, by Vatican Media, workers and restorers prepare the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, where the upcoming conclave will start May 7. (Vatican Media via AP)
In this image taken on Monday, April 28, 2025, and made available Saturday, May 3, 2025, by Vatican Media, workers prepare the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, where the upcoming conclave will start May 7, backdropped by Michelangelo Buonarroti’s fresco ‘The Last Judgement’. (Vatican Media via AP)
In this image taken on Monday, April 28, 2025, and made available Saturday, May 3, 2025, by Vatican Media, workers prepare the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, where the upcoming conclave will start May 7, backdropped by Michelangelo Buonarroti’s fresco ‘The Last Judgement’. (Vatican Media via AP)
Cardinal Timothy Peter Joseph Radcliffe arrives at the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025, to attend the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Cardinal Timothy Peter Joseph Radcliffe arrives at the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025, to attend the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Firefighters place the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather to elect the new pope, at the Vatican, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Firefighters place the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather to elect the new pope, at the Vatican, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Firefighters place the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather to elect the new pope, at the Vatican, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Firefighters place the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather to elect the new pope, at the Vatican, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinal Robert Sarah arrives at the Vatican, Friday, May 2, 2025, to attend the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinal Robert Sarah arrives at the Vatican, Friday, May 2, 2025, to attend the General Congregation of cardinals in the New Synod Hall where they are preparing for the upcoming conclave starting on May 7, to elect the 267th Roman pontiff. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Firefighters place the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather to elect the new pope, at the Vatican, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Firefighters place the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather to elect the new pope, at the Vatican, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
This is a photo collection curated by AP photo editors.