A person who opposes the Pope or papal system; someone who practices or advocates antipapism.
From antipapism + -ist. Used since the Reformation to describe those who rejected papal authority.
Medieval and Renaissance antipapists faced real danger—many were excommunicated, imprisoned, or executed, yet their writings survived in secret and eventually sparked the Reformation, proving that suppressing ideas often makes them more powerful.
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