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| | Sirianism OR Pope Siri ("Gregory XVII") |
 | | While imprisoned by Balisarius, Pope Silverius (536-37) capitulated to the point that he actually abdicated from his office, in order to allow the antipope Vigilius, invalidly installed by the pope's captors, to become regularized in his possession of the Chair of Peter, so that the Church would not be left without a head. |
 | | In 1378, the cardinals who had just elected Bartolomeo Prignano, who took the name Pope Urban VI (1378-89), to the supreme pontificate, became afraid of what might have been the reaction to their choice by the Roman mob which burst into the conclave, and announced instead that they had elected the Roman Cardinal Tibaldeschi. |
 | | IV., page 426), perhaps anticipating our own frightful age when apostasy runs rampant in the wake of a heretical council, says: "Such instances have only occurred during times of grave constitutional crisis in the Church, when either there was no pope, or the rightful pope was indistinguishable from antipopes. |
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