anti-pope
Also spelled antipope. A false claimant to the Holy See in opposition to a pontiff canonically elected. Sometimes the leader of an openly schismatic sect, sometimes claiming the leadership of the legitimate Church. The following anti-popes are profiled on this site.
- Abert
- Adalbert
- Aleric
- Alexander V
- Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy
- Anacletus II
- Anastasius Bibliothecarius
- Baldassare Cossa
- Benedict X
- Benedict XIII
- Benedict XIV
- Bernard Garnier
- Boniface Franco
- Boniface VII
- Boccadipecora, Teobaldo
- Bourdin, Maurice
- Buccapecuc, Thebaldus
- Burdanus, Maurice
- Cadalous, Pietro
- Callistus III
- Celestine II
- Christopher
- Clement III
- Clement VII
- Clement VIII
- Clemente Domínguez y Gómez
- Constantine II
- Conti, Gregorio
- Corral, Manuel Alonso
- Cossa, Baldassare
- Crema, Guido of
- Dioscorus
- Eulalius
- Franco, Boniface
- Frangipani, Lando dei
- Felix II
- Felix V
- Filagatto, John
- Gil Sanchez Muñoz
- Giovanni of Struma
- Gregorio Conti
- Gregory VI
- Gregory VIII
- Gregory XVII
- Guibert of Ravenna
- Guido of Crema
- Hippolytus, Saint
- Honorius II
- Innocent III
- Jean Carrier
- John
- John XVI
- John XXIII
- John, Abbot of Struma
- John, Bishop of Sabina
- John Filagatto
- John Mincius
- John of Sabina
- John of Struma
- John Philagathus
- Lando dei Frangipani
- Lanzo of Sezza
- Laurentius
- Leo
- Luna, Pedro de
- Maginulf
- Manuel Alonso Corral
- Maurice Bourdin
- Maurice Burdanus
- Mincius, John
- Muñoz, Gil Sanchez
- Nicholas V
- Novatian
- Octavius
- Ottavio di Montecelio
- Paschal
- Paschal III
- Peter II
- Pietro Cadalous
- Pedro de Luna
- Philagathus, John
- Philarghi, Pietro
- Philip
- Pierleone, Pietro
- Pietro Cadalus
- Pietro Philarghi
- Pietro Pierleone
- Pietro Rainalducci
- Rainalducci, Pietro
- Ravenna, Guibert of
- Robert of Geneva
- Sabina, John of
- Struma, John of
- Sylvester III
- Sylvester IV
- Teobaldo Boccadipecora
- Thebaldus Buccapecuc
- Theodore
- Theodoric
- Theofylact
- Tiberius
- Ursicinus
- Ursinus
- Victor IV (1138)
- Victor IV (1159 to 1164)