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| | Antipope Clement VIII dgun.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | Clement VIII was one of the antipopes of the Avignon line, reigning from 10 June 1423 to 26 July 1429. |
 | | These antipopes were usually in opposition to a specific person chosen by the papal electors (since the Middle Ages, the College of Cardinals; in the twentieth century, their special secret meeting, called conclave, however applies the age limit for eligibility). |
 | | (See Western Schism, Antipope Benedict XIII.) It would not necessarily have been evident, during periods when two (or three) rival claimants existed, which was the antipope, and which was the pope, and the clear-cut distinctions made between them in retrospect can give a false sense that certainty existed among their contemporaries. |
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