antipope's Usage Examples:

Innocent III (Antipope) >>This schism lasted fully ten years, although the antipope found hardly any adherents outside of his own hereditary states, those of Alphonso of Aragon, of the Swiss confederation and certain universities.

Nicholas V (Antipope) >>In 1130 Roger was crowned at Palermo, by authority of the antipope Anacletus, taking the strange title of " king of Sicily and Italy.

had migrated to Rome, two antipopes, Clement VII.

and his imperial antipopes, encouraging the emperors son to rebel against him, and stirring up Europe for the first crusade.

Clement VII (Antipope) >>In 1165 Charles was canonized by the antipope Paschal III.

Undismayed by personal danger, Savonarola resolved to appeal to all Christendom against the unrighteous pontiff, and despatched letters to the rulers of Europe adjuring them to assemble a council to condemn this antipope.

Boniface won Naples, which had owed spiritual allegiance to the antipopes Clement VII.

Throughout the major part of his pontificate he had to reckon with the presence of the powerful antipope Clement III.

He at once excommunicated Henry and the antipope and, under Norman protection, was able to return to Rome in July; but the disturbances of the imperialist party, especially of the Frangipani, who attacked the pope while celebrating mass in the church of St Prassede, compelled Gelasius to go once more into exile.

as popes rather than as antipopes, and accordingly count Gregory's pontificate from 1406 to 1409.

NOVATIANUS, Roman presbyter, and one of the earliest antipopes, founder of the sect of the Novatiani or Novatians, was born about the beginning of the 3rd century.