Opposition to or hostility toward the Pope, papal authority, or papal policies.
From anti- + papism (devotion to papal authority) + -ism (ideology). Developed as a distinct ideological concept during the Reformation era.
Antipapism wasn't uniform—some antipapists wanted to reform the papacy, others wanted to abolish it entirely, and still others were primarily anti-papal-corruption rather than anti-papal-principle, making it a complex historical phenomenon.
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