Etymology

sedevacantism

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Today it means: The belief, held by a minority of Christians claiming to be traditionalist Catholics, that the present occupant of the Holy See is not the true pope and that the see has been vacant since the 1960s. Full definition →

English sede vacante ← Latin sēde vacante
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The story

  1. Latinsēde vacante
  2. Englishsede vacante
  3. English todaysedevacantism

From sede vacante + -ism.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.