Pseudocardinal

Pseudocardinals were the cardinals created by the antipopes. Their state, like the state of the antipopes, is disputed. Many pseudocardinals were created during the controversy between the Holy See and the Holy Roman Empire during the Western Schism, and some of the cardinals switched their obedience. The legitimacy of the popes of the different obediences during the Western Schism was not a clear matter for their contemporaries. The terms antipope, pseudocardinal and anticardinal were not used at that time, but they are now used by some modern Roman Catholic historians.

Popes and Anti-Popes of the Western Schism

↓ Gregory XI moves back to Rome ↱ Clement VII's election begins the Western Schism ↓Council of Pisa ↓ Council of Constance Clement VII Benedict XIII Urban VI Boniface IX Innocent VII Gregory XII Alexander V→ John XXIII │ 1376 │ 1386 │ 1396 │ 1406 │ 1416 = Avignon = Rome = Pisa

Antipopes of the Catholic Church

Natalius Hippolytus Novatian Felix II Ursicinus Eulalius Laurentius Dioscorus Theodore Paschal Constantine II Philip John VIII Anastasius Christopher Boniface VII John XVI Gregory VI Benedict X Honorius II Clement III Theodoric Adalbert Sylvester IV Gregory VIII Celestine II Anacletus II Victor IV (1138) Victor IV (1159–1164) Paschal III Callixtus III Innocent III Nicholas V Clement VII Benedict XIII Alexander V John XXIII Clement VIII Benedict XIV Felix V Modern claimants to papacy

Western Schism Sedevacantism Conclavism

External links

Catalog of Pseudocardinals (1058-1447)

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