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Antipope

//ˈæntiˌpoʊp// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who claims or claimed to be the pope, usually as the result of a disputed election or deposition, but is not considered by the Roman Catholic Church to be the real pope.

    "Meanwhile support for the ‘puppet’ antipope Nicholas V, deprived of his protector and by now excommunicated along with his emperor, rapidly withered away."

  2. 2
    someone who is elected pope in opposition to another person who is held to be canonically elected wordnet

Etymology

From Middle French antipape (later assimilated to anti- + pope), from Medieval Latin antipāpa.

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