As per Canon Law, all male Catholics are potential candidates for pope. However, in practicality, only a cardinal is elected. It has been hundreds of years since a non-cardinal has been elected.
He is chosen from among the cardinals but, technically, any male Catholic can be chosen as pope, even a lay person.
He can be chosen from any Catholic male but has customarily been chosen from among the cardinals.
In the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.
The group is called the College of Cardinals.
Theoretically, any baptized Catholic male can be chosen as pope. However, the pope is usually chosen from among the cardinals.
The College of Cardinals.
Popes are chosen by cardinals in a conclave during which, as a group and as individuals, they pray for guidance of the Holy Spirit to help them choose the new pope.
He was appointed by Christ to be pope.
Yes, the new Pope has been chosen, the new Pope of the Roman Catholic Church is Pope Francis. He was elected on March 13,2013.
Peter was chosen as the leader of the Church and apostles. Pope Gregory was chosen to be the pope and leader of the Church.
You do not run for pope. You are chosen as pope by the College of Cardinals. There is no campaign.
Sergius I was chosen by a group of judges, soldiers, clergy, and citizens from the region around Rome which finally settled the problem of three claimants to the chair of Peter.
No pope has chosen that name. There is no prohibition to a pope using Matthew.
He was elected as pope on April 19, 2005.
Pope Francis was chose pope on March 13, 2013.
Although any male Catholic could be chosen as pope. unless you are a cardinal, your chances of being chosen as pope are virtually zero.
He was chosen as pope because the College of cardinals, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, decided he was the best man for the job. Since conclaves are secret, we will probably know little else about the reasons he was chosen.