Origin of religious positions and title

Facts about Position/Title

Date Founded	1100 CE	Place Founded	Unknown
Founder(s)	Unknown
Etymology	Anti (against) Christ (Vicar of Christ)
Original Function	Title for official Roman Cult false pretender against the true Vicar of Christ.

The title of AntiChrist is a formal title created during the 11th Century to define the leader of the heretical sect known as the Roman Cult who increasingly sought to take control of the Catholic Church using unlawful means.

Contrary to revised history and misinformation, the word AntiChrist did not originally mean "One who is opposed to Jesus Christ" but simply the leader of a cult "opposed to the Vicar of Christ, the apostolic see of the Catholic Church".

Therefore, the correct historic term for describing the heretical leaders of the Roman Cult and later factions is the term AntiChrist, not AntiPope.

AntiPope

The word AntiPope was created during the 16th Century re-edits of the forgery Liber Pontificalis as a deliberate attempt to marginalize the term AntiChrist in favour of AntiPope.

While the Roman Cult has since infused the title into countless forgeries and revisions of history, there is no evidence of the title ever being used as a formal, nor informal title for Imperial Christianity centered at Constantinople.

Nor is there any evidence of the pagan high priests Pontifex Maximus permitting themselves to be addressed using such a shorthand Latin term.

Instead, the origin of the term appears to be an evolution of the role of Vicarius Christi (Vicar of Christ) in adopting other official titles to enhance the claimed authority of the position.

While subsequent Carolongian "Popes" used the title of Pope, the last reign of the pagan priests -- the Counts of Tusculum from 897 to Gregory VII in 1057 are unlikely to have accepted such a term.

During the subsequent wars between the legitimate Popes of the Frankish noble families and the former pagan high priests of Cybele, it is probable they retained their preference for use of the term Pontiff.

Today, the word Pope is accepted as the most common title of the claimed "Vicar of Christ", while his formal title as head of the Roman Cult that continues to hold the Catholic Church hostage remains Pontiff - short for Pontifex Maximus.


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