[Zeno]

"So Zeno, you must find the lengths to which one must go to be a certified anti-pope. "

I wish this were simple. In the thirteen and fourteen hundreds the papacy was controlled by Italian princes and powerful Italian families and by foreign politics, French and German mainly. It was all very complicated especially when the French started to get influence and set up a papacy in Aragon. At one time, I think, there were three different popes (Rome, Aragon, Pisa) but the main break was between the pope in Rome and one in Aragon, in France. Each Pope, of course, was infallible, which resulted in a comical mix of metaphysics, bombast, and human idiocy. Wars were fought and councils called etc and it was all resolved in the later 1400’s or so.

All you really need to do is get enough discontented cardinals to vote you in as pope or cause a split in Mother Church and get elected "pope" (anti-pope) by enough renegade cardinals. It is all so democratic. You first must become a cardinal but that can be accomplished with simple bribery or backroom deals involving Swiss bank accounts, the Vatican Bank, white slavery, and illicit sex. Good Luck.

-Zeno