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Antipope
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Antipope. A person in Christianity who claims (or exercises) the office of
pope illegitimately. The RC Church lists thirty-seven, from Hippolytus (d.
c.235) to Felix V, who abdicated in 1449. The major and serious conflict over the papacy took place in the W. schism, 1378–1417. After the election of Urban VI in 1378, some cardinals, claiming that he was mentally unstable, elected Clement VII, who returned to Avignon as the centre of papal authority. Attempts to heal the schism included the election of a third pope, Alexander V, at Pisa. The attempt to locate continuing authority in these circumstances led directly into the conciliar controversy, raising the possibility that a general council, or the college of
cardinals (with or without such additional figures as certain university professors), had the ultimate authority—a position condemned by Pius II in the Bull
Exsecrabilis, and also by the First
Vatican Council. The schism was ended by the elevation of Oddo at the Council of Constance (1414–18) to become Martin V.
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Of antipopes and co-popes: seeing double pontificates.(history of papacy)(Column)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 3/21/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...invalid, then Leo VIII is an antipope and Benedict V is a legitimate...between legitimate popes and antipopes is something the church has...than 12 centuries. The first antipope (Hippolytus) began his presumptive...pontificate in 217. The last of the antipopes (Felix V) did not finally...
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Short breaks: 48 hours in Avignon Popes, antipopes, a rather famous bridge and a feted cultural life - what more do you want?
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; WHY GO NOW? Avignon is one of nine European Cities of Culture this year and is hosting a non-stop series of artistic and musical events, as well as its well- established annual festival (which runs until 30 July). For details, call the Tourist Office on 00 33 4 32 74 32 74. On a less exalted but
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Dictionary of Popes and the Papacy
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...legitimate bishops of Rome-and are therefore antipopes. A separate list of antipopes might have been useful. The main text is divided...provides important information on popes and antipopes from "Peter" to "John Paul 11" in alphabetical...
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Pope dreams go up in smoke; Her connection will prompt her to continue 'tradition'
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 11/9/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...appointed a person whom they dubbed the "antipope." This would not go over well these...Even if I were considered, through some antipope-like loophole, I would still be a...Who knows, there might be a future antipope among them. You can e-mail Amy at...
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24 popes, some good, in years leading up to first millennium.
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 3/17/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...of the 37 illegally elected popes, or antipopes. The last, Felix V, was a saintly...a day; Benedict VI for six months - antipope Boniface had him strangled; the deposed...murder of both the deposed Leo V and antipope Christopher, and of inaugurating the...
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Letter: Purple and privileged
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/23/1997; ; 315 words
; ...Malmesbury records that in 1121 Pope Calixtus II ridiculed the antipope Gregory VIII, whose election had been engineered by the German...to languish, they may also find comfort in the fate of the antipope, who was arrested by the church authorities and forced to...
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Papal history a mix of saints, rakehells.(Column)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 10/20/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...fisherman from Bethsaida in Galilee, the church has endured 39 antipopes. Some were self-appointed, others installed by one unholy...973-74) who was strangled by a priest contracted by an antipope and John XII (955-64), elected pope at age 18 and killed...
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Own historian
Newspaper article from: The Press; 5/25/2005; 312 words
; ...Vatican dropped six popes from its list, placed two in doubt as antipopes, listed one who was not included and removed Pope Dono II...were later combined as the same. Felix II was removed as an antipope, while Christoforo was dropped altogether and the legitimacy...
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Church better off today than 1,000 years ago. (Catholic Church)(Openers) (Column)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 4/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...didn't work, however. History lists Boniface VII with the antipopes, not the real ones. Benedict VI's legitimate successor...name Benedict VII. He immediately held a synod at which the antipope, Boniface VII, was excommunicated. But Boniface led a subsequent...
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Homosexuality and Catholic priests. (Op-Ed).(Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Free Inquiry; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Damian (1007-1072). And it was more or less standard practice throughout the Middle Ages to denounce suspect clergy and antipopes as sodomites. Church councils are full of references to homosexuality. The problem was compounded at the end of the twelfth...
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antipope
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
antipope A person who claims or exercises the office of...true pope of the time. There have been about 35 antipopes in the history of the Catholic Church, the last...which person was the true pope and which was the antipope.
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Antipope
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Antipope. A person in Christianity who claims (or exercises) the office of pope illegitimately. The RC Church lists thirty-seven...
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Popes of the Roman Catholic Church
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...dates may err by one year. Antipopes—i.e., those...St. Calixtus I , 217-22 antipope: St. Hippolytus , 217...St. Cornelius , 251-53 antipope: Novatian, 251 St. Lucius...337-52 Liberius, 352-66 antipope: Felix , 355-65 St. Damasus...
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Pedro de Luna
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Aragonese churchman, antipope (1394-1417) with the...Robert of Geneva , who, as Antipope Clement VII, launched...Benedict XIII, the new antipope proved himself the most able of all of the popes and antipopes of the period. He showed...
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Alexander III
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...emperor Frederick I and his antipopes. It was during Alexander...papacy. Frederick and the Antipopes In 1152, Pope Adrian IV crowned...a horde sympathetic to the antipope Victor IV, and Alexander...Frederick installing succeeding antipopes Paschal III (1164 –...
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