WI Cardinal Luciani declines his election to the Papacy in 1978?

After receiving th majority needed for election Cardinal Luciani accepted the result and chose John-Paul I as his Papal name... After donning the Papal vestments and grinning happily, he took the throne that had been erected in front of the altar, and the joyful Cardinals approached one by one to embrace him and to kiss the papal ring. John Paul I had a word for many of them. "Holy Father, thank you for having said yes," said Belgium's Leo Jozef Suenens. Replied the Pope: "Perhaps it would have been better if I had said no."
WI Cardinal Luciani had declared "Non accepto" when asked if he accepts the election? How is that affecting History? Could the Cardinals have elected Cardinal Wojtyla instead or another Italian gets elected?
 
After receiving th majority needed for election Cardinal Luciani accepted the result and chose John-Paul I as his Papal name... After donning the Papal vestments and grinning happily, he took the throne that had been erected in front of the altar, and the joyful Cardinals approached one by one to embrace him and to kiss the papal ring. John Paul I had a word for many of them. "Holy Father, thank you for having said yes," said Belgium's Leo Jozef Suenens. Replied the Pope: "Perhaps it would have been better if I had said no."
WI Cardinal Luciani had declared "Non accepto" when asked if he accepts the election? How is that affecting History? Could the Cardinals have elected Cardinal Wojtyla instead or another Italian gets elected?
Has any papal electee ever declined? If so, when was the last one? I would think that anyone who let their name stand would pretty much have to accept on being elected, no?

Back in the old days, when occasionally a famous person outside the room was elected (I think that happened a few times), I could see that person not accepting, but these days, candidates normally run for office (not quite in the same way that secular politicians do, but close), and I think a papal candidate refusing would be like John McCain or Barack Obama at their respective parties' conventions declining nomination...
 
Has any papal electee ever declined? If so, when was the last one? I would think that anyone who let their name stand would pretty much have to accept on being elected, no?

Back in the old days, when occasionally a famous person outside the room was elected (I think that happened a few times), I could see that person not accepting, but these days, candidates normally run for office (not quite in the same way that secular politicians do, but close), and I think a papal candidate refusing would be like John McCain or Barack Obama at their respective parties' conventions declining nomination...

Cardinal Borromeo obtained the 2/3 majority in the 1567 conclave if i remember correctly but he declared "non accepto" and subsequent ballots electected Cardinal Ghisleri as Pope Pius V instead... In October 1978 Conclave when Cardinal Colombo started receiving many votes he stated that if these votes reach the 2/3 majority he will declare "non accepto"...
There are a few others though but i dont recall them...
 
Cardinal Borromeo obtained the 2/3 majority in the 1567 conclave if i remember correctly but he declared "non accepto" and subsequent ballots electected Cardinal Ghisleri as Pope Pius V instead... In October 1978 Conclave when Cardinal Colombo started receiving many votes he stated that if these votes reach the 2/3 majority he will declare "non accepto"...
There are a few others though but i dont recall them...
Thank you, good sir
 
So if Cardinal Luciani doesnt accept the Papacy and Cardinals starts voting again would a Wojtyla candidacy had chances or they come up with another Italian? Siri perhaps? Or Ursi?
 
Well, after Luciani declines the papacy, a lot of cardinals are going to approach him before the next balloting and ask who he thinks should be pope. I imagine that even a shrinking violet like Luciani would nonetheless wield a great deal of power as kingmaker. And we know that Luciani favored Lorscheider, so he would likely be one of the top names in contention.
 
Well, after Luciani declines the papacy, a lot of cardinals are going to approach him before the next balloting and ask who he thinks should be pope. I imagine that even a shrinking violet like Luciani would nonetheless wield a great deal of power as kingmaker. And we know that Luciani favored Lorscheider, so he would likely be one of the top names in contention.
 
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