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What does antipapal mean?

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Adjective
  1. (Roman Catholicism) characterized by opposition to the pope
  2. (Roman Catholicism) of or relating to an antipope
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And, even then, a dissident antipapal council assembled in 1511 at Pisa, stimulating a great outflow of canonistic and theological writings in defence of the Conciliar theory.
What a decidedly antipapal character did the Church, which retained most of the hierarchic usages, nevertheless assume!
That Rosicrucianism is non-Roman, if not anti-Roman, is clear from the explicit texts, such as that of the Confessio, which is declaredly antipapal.
Record of Henry's attendance in 1535 at an antipapal interlude that dramatized himself attacking the bishops might also have some relevance for the Epiphany interlude.
The bishop's introduction in 1637 of a formal liturgy to the antipapal Scots resulted in outrage among the people of Brechin.

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