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Someone who is elected pope in opposition to another person who is held to be canonically elected.

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  • Nevertheless, Monsieur de Savoie, for so Charles VII called the antipope, was united to him by ties of blood.
  • Amadeus VIII (1391-1434), known as the antipope Felix V (q. v.), was made a duke by Emperor Sigismund in 1416; in 1422 he received the
  • Aix-la-Chapelle, till the antipope Pascal, at the desire of Frederic
  • Veletri, an antipope, set up by the capitaneos or magistrates of Rome, to quit his usurped dignity.
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