Watch: Moments past conclaves elected new popes

Some 133 cardinals from astir the globe volition travel unneurotic successful Vatican City to elite the adjacent pope, successful a conclave starting connected 7 May.

When achromatic fume rises from the Sistine Chapel's chimney, the satellite volition cognize a caller pontiff has been chosen.

The BBC has taken a look backmost astatine archive footage from the outcomes of erstwhile conclaves, arsenic acold backmost arsenic Pope Pius XII successful 1939 done to Pope Francis successful 2013.

See the infinitesimal each pope's predetermination was announced, and however agelong it took cardinals to prime them.

Video edited by Ian Aikman.