Electing and Installing a New Pope

1.  White Smoke:
     From the Sistine Chapel's chimney alerts onlookers that a new pope has been elected.

2.  The dean of the College of Cardinals asks the elected candidate what name he wishes to be called    as pope. The other cardinals then come forward to greet the new pope as he sits near the chapel's altar.

3.  Papal vestments:
     The new pope proceeds through the chapel's "Door of Tears" into a room with three sets of vestments --     small,  medium, and large ---- for him to choose from.  He then dresses himself in papal white.

4.  A senior cardinal steps onto the main balcony overlooking St. Peter's Square and declares "Habemus  Papam!"  ("We have a pope!").  The new pope then appears on the balcony and delivers his apostolic blessing.

5.  Historically, popes have had a coronation within a few days of their election.  The pope was carried on a throne called the sedia gestatoria to the ceremony where the papal tiara ---- or triregnum, representing the pope as "father of kings, governor of the world, and Vicar of Christ" ----- would be placed on his head.  However, every pope since Paul VI in 1963 has chosen not to have coronations or tiaras, but instead has held a much more low-key installation ceremony.