Crossword clues for antipope
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Antipope \An"ti*pope\, n. One who is elected, or claims to be, pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen; esp. applied to those popes who resided at Avignon during the Great Schism.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context Christianity English) A person who claims or claimed to be the pope as the result of a disputed election, but is not considered by the Roman Catholic Church to be the real pope.
Wikipedia
An antipope is a person who, in opposition to the one who is generally seen as the legitimately elected Pope, makes a significantly accepted competing claim to be the Pope, the Bishop of Rome and leader of the Catholic Church. At times between the 3rd and mid-15th century, antipopes were supported by a fairly significant faction of religious cardinals and secular monarchs and kingdoms. Persons who claim to be pope, but have few followers, such as the modern sedevacantist antipopes, are not classified with the historical antipopes.
Usage examples of "antipope".
Filpeo always spoke of him as Antipope, although there was no competing Pope.
George, Secretary to the Antipope, and banished under sentence of death to the far reaches of the Bay Ghost and the Nady Ann?
Now they wanted revenge and the only one they could get it on was the Antipope, whose armies their scouts had told them were heading south, toward Hannegan City and the Red River.
Magi bones were moved from Italy to Germany in 1162, another time when the true pope was chased out of Rome and an antipope sat on the papal seat.
About twelve years afterwards, he besieged Rome, to seat an antipope in the chair of St.
Just two months before he could celebrate his triumph in Cologne, the antipope, Victor, died.
So he invented a new antipope, Paschal III, organizing a parody of a conclave with a few ecclesiastics he collected practically off the street.
While Frederick was in Rome to expel Alexander III and put his antipope on the throne, a pestilence broke out, and the plague takes the rich and the poor alike.
We in the north were more concerned about which pope was the real one, and which the antipope, insisting that it all depended on a whim of our late Lord Rainald.
Singularity a couple of times, usually in collaboration with gonzo Singleton Charlie Stross, the mad antipope of the Singularity.
Borja privately speculated that the record had almost certainly been altered or effaced after the event to insure that the eventual loser appeared as the antipope to the eyes of history.
How much more troubled will their consciences be if Spain places an antipope on Our throne?
I understood Father-General Vitelleschi correctly, there is going to be an antipope come what may.
Pope Calixtus, who in his turn was then laboring under many difficulties, by reason of the pretensions of Gregory, an antipope, was obliged to promise that he never would for the future, except when solicited by the king himself, send any legate into England.
The Donatello-Michelozzo partnership lasted until about 1433, drawing a number of lucrative commissions, including a magnificent tomb of the antipope John XXIII for the Baptistery in Florence, which was nearing completion in 1427.