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Can a layman be elected pope?

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Can a layman be elected pope?

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Theoretically speaking, any baptized male Catholic can be elected pope. Were such a layman elected, he would immediately be ordained and made a bishop (because the pope is the Bishop of Rome), thus making him able to celebrate Mass.

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