More than 130 cardinals are entering the largest-ever conclave today to elect the new pope. They will go into the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City to choose the late Pope Francis’s successor and will have no contact with the outside world until white smoke rises into the air.
Up to four votes will be had each day apart from the first, as proceedings will not get under way until the afternoon.
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