Antipope Dioscorus

Antipope Dioscorus

Deacon of the Alexandrian and the Roman church, antipope in 530

Dioscorus was a deacon of the Alexandrian and the Roman church from 506. In a disputed election following the death of Pope Felix IV, the majority of electors picked him to be pope, in spite of Pope Felix's wishes that Boniface II should succeed him. However, Dioscorus died less…