Last non-cardinal elected Pope was Pope Urban VI (1378-1389)

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Of course the story to this is pretty crazy:

On the death of Pope Gregory XI in 1378, a Roman mob surrounded the papal conclave to demand a Roman pope. The cardinals being under some haste and great pressure to avoid the return of the Papal seat to Avignon, Prignano was unanimously chosen Pope on 8 April 1378 as acceptable to the disunited[3] majority of French cardinals, taking the name Urban VI. Not being a Cardinal, he was not well known. Immediately following the conclave, most of the cardinals fled Rome before the mob could learn that not a Roman (though not a Frenchman either), but a subject of Queen Joan I of Naples, had been chosen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Urban_VI#Election_as_Pope

They picked a pope and got out of town fast! What are the chances they pick a non-Cardinal now? I imagine not good.

[niyad]

1. personally, waiting for another pope joan

[DJ13]

2. So a Pope Keith Urban isnt out of the question?

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3. It's possible

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4. It's not called the Avignon Captivity for nothing.