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He succeeded his rival Giovanni Vitelleschi, a fellow militaristic cardinal, as bishop of Traù and metropolitan bishop of Florence.
Cardinal Pacelli received 35 votes in the first ballot, and other votes went to Luigi Maglione, Elia Dalla Costa of Florence, and Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve of Quebec.