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Antipope Paschal (687)

Archdeacon, antipope in 687

Field	Value
type	Antipope
name	Paschal
term_end
term_start	21 September 687
opposed	Roman claimant:
Sergius I
Rival claimant:
Theodore
predecessor	Pope Conon
successor	Sergius I (as Pope)
death_place	Rome, Italy
honorific_prefix	Antipope

Sergius I Rival claimant: Theodore Paschal was a rival with Theodore for Pope following the death of Pope Conon (21 September 687), and thus is considered an antipope of the Roman Catholic church.

Biography

Prior to the disputed election, Paschal was an archdeacon. According to the Liber Pontificalis partisans of Paschal and Theodore seized different parts of the Lateran, and as each were unwilling to give way to the other they were locked in combat for control of the entire basilica. Meanwhile, representatives of the garrison, the majority of the clergy and the citizens met in the imperial palace and eventually elected Sergius, a priest of the church of Santa Susanna as Conon's successor. Having thus decided on Sergius, they brought him to the Lateran and forced their way in.

Although appearing to accede to the supporters of Pope Sergius, Paschal sent messengers to the exarch of Ravenna John Platyn promising gold in exchange for military support. The exarch arrived, demanded the gold, and looted Old St. Peter's Basilica, but departed after Sergius I's consecration (15 December 687). Paschal was eventually confined to a monastery on charges of witchcraft.

References

Raymond Davis (translator),'' The Book of Pontiffs (Liber Pontificalis)'', first edition (Liverpool: University Press, 1989), p. 83
Ekonomou, [[Andrew J. Ekonomou]], ''Byzantine Rome and the Greek Popes: Eastern influences on Rome and the papacy from Gregory the Great to Zacharias, A.D. 590–752'' (New York: Lexington Books, 2007), p. 216

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