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No conclave since has lasted as much as one week, but at the time no conclave had lasted less than three weeks since 1667 .

45 of the 54 living cardinals participated, and Bartolomeo Pacca presided as Dean Of The Sacred College . Cappellari, then a Camaldolese priest and prefect of the Congregatio De Propaganda Fide , was also the last Pope not yet a bishop when elected.