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00:00Was this sooner than expected? I felt like it was two days of voting.
00:04I wasn't expecting white smoke so quick. I don't know why.
00:07We don't know how many votes in we were.
00:11It's not clear just yet if it was the fourth or the fifth round of voting.
00:15But that is early doors.
00:16Now, Pope Benedict XVI was voted in after four rounds of voting when he took the position.
00:22Francis was elected after five counts, so both the second day of votes.
00:27And Pope John Paul II, their predecessor, was three days of voting.
00:30So it's certainly not the shortest, which was a number of hours, which happened in 1503.
00:35I think that was when Pope Pius III had passed away after 23 days in office as Pope.
00:40So it's not as short as that, which was, I think, three hours.
00:43And it's not as long as Clement IV or the fifth.
00:46He passed away in 1268, and it took three years to find a new Pope.
00:51So we're somewhere between the middle.