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What is an antipope?

What is an antipope? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Christianity) 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.
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With his antipope he entered it, receiving from his hands the imperial crown.
The promise made by the Avignonese antipope was not binding on the Roman curia and the quarrel continued.
Primarily interested in extending his own personal realm, he agreed to support the antipope Clement VII, who promised him Itria, a kingdom to be created in central Italy.
In the eleventh century. power passed into the hands of bishops, among which we mention Cataldo, antipope Honorius II, who began building the cathedral.
Three months later, he declared John XXII deposed and installed the Spiritual Franciscan Pietro Rainalducci as antipope.
The object of this one is to elect an antipope who will be the exterminating Antichrist.

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