1585 papal conclave

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Papal conclave April 1585
Dates and location
21–24 April 1585 Apostolic Palace, Papal States
Key officials
Dean	Alessandro Farnese
Camerlengo	Filippo Guastavillani
Elected pope
Felice Peretti di Montalto Name taken: Sixtus V
← 1572 September 1590 →

The 1585 papal conclave (21–24 April), convoked after the death of Pope Gregory XIII, elected Cardinal Felice Peretti Montalto (O.F.M.Conv), who took the name Sixtus V. Forty-two of the sixty cardinals participated in the conclave. The absence of thirty percent of the cardinalate makes this conclave one of the most sparsely attended in the history of the modern Roman Catholic Church. Fourteen of Gregory XIII's thirty cardinals failed to attend, a startlingly high number.