ANTIPOPE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Example:

the antipopes resided in Avignon during the Great Schism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("antipope" is a kind of...):

Bishop of Rome; Catholic Pope; Holy Father; pontiff; pope; Roman Catholic Pope; Vicar of Christ (the head of the Roman Catholic Church)

Instance hyponyms:

Clement III; Guibert of Ravenna (Italian antipope from 1080 to 1100 who was installed as pope by the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV who consistently opposed efforts at papal reform (died in 1100))

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