A false claimant of the Holy See in opposition to a pontiff canonically elected. At various times in the history of the Church illegal pretenders to the Papal Chair have arisen, and frequently exercised pontifical functions in defiance of the true occupant. Hergenr?ther enumerates thirty in the following order:
[Note: See also Alexander III,
Dioscorus (d. 530), and John XXIII
(1370-1419)]
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Nihil Obstat, March 1,
1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor
Imprimatur.
+John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New
York