The 135 Roman Catholic cardinals eligible to vote will meet at Sistine Chapel to decide church’s next leader
Catholic cardinals from all over the world will converge under Michelangelo’s ceiling frescoes in the Sistine Chapel on 7 May to begin a conclave, the secretive election process to choose the next pope.
The date was confirmed by the Vatican on Monday after cardinals gathered for the first pre-conclave meeting since the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday. The 16th-century Sistine Chapel has been closed to tourists to allow preparations for the election.