antipope
a person who is elected or claims to be pope in opposition to another held to be canonically chosen.
Origin of antipope
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How to use antipope in a sentence
This latter provision, which still holds good, made imperial antipopes henceforth impossible.
In times of schism caused by antipopes it was a practice of the utmost importance.
The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome | Charles Michael BaggsTwenty-nine antipopes are enumerated in Church history; the last of them is Felix V, 1439-49.
British Dictionary definitions for antipope
/ (ˈæntɪˌpəʊp) /
a rival pope elected in opposition to one who has been canonically chosen
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