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2 unusual facts about Antipope Dioscorus


Pope Agapetus I

His first official act was to burn, in the presence of the assembled clergy, the anathema which Boniface II had pronounced against the latter's deceased rival Dioscurus on a false charge of simony and had ordered to be preserved in the Roman archives.

Pope Felix IV

The majority of the clergy reacted to Felix's activity by nominating Dioscorus as Pope.



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