出典:Wiktionary
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2025/09/02 00:52 UTC 版)
From Middle French antipape (later assimilated to anti- + pope), from Medieval Latin antipāpa.
antipope (plural antipopes)
出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/05/27 00:02 UTC 版)
An antipope (Latin: antipapa) is a person who opposes a legitimately elected or sitting Pope and makes a significantly accepted competing claim to be the Pope, the Bishop of Rome and leader of the Roman Catholic Church. At times between the 3rd and mid-15th century, antipopes were typically those supported by a fairly significant faction of religious cardinals and secular kings and kingdoms. Persons who claim to be the pope but have few followers, such as the modern sedevacantist antipopes, are not generally classified as antipopes, and therefore are ignored for regnal numbering.