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What if, instead of Protestantism, Catholicism fragments with most Catholic nations installing an AntiPope between the 1520s and 1630s.

These AntiPopes are subservient to the nation that brought them to power and major internal reforms within the church are instituted by them. These various national churches would each follow a general philosophical tradition of their country. For example, I could see Lollardy having a massive influence on the British Catholic Church.

This thread is sort of a sequel of ideas from this thread, so bonus points to any ideas or timelines that factor in the idea of this move emerging in the from a German Revolution in the 1520s.

The idea is based off of the Medieval practice of declaring AntiPopes and the modern day Polish Catholic Church, which is separate from the Roman Catholic one.
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