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===The Palmarian Popes as Vicars of Christ===
{{Main|Holy See|List of popes}}

{{See also|Papal supremacy|Papal infallibility}}
[[File:Simple papal tiara and keys.svg|thumb|right|230px|The symbol of the [[Holy See]], featuring the Papal tiara and [[keys of St. Peter]], features on all official Palmarian Papal documents.]]
The Palmarian Church considers the Patriarchate of El Palmar de Troya to be the current [[Holy See]] of the [[Catholic Church]] and as part of this considers the legitimate apostolic predecessors of the Palmarian Pope to be all of the Roman Pontiffs from [[Saint Peter|Peter]] to [[Pope Paul VI]] whose legitimacy is confirmed by Gregory XVII's visions, and some who are unknown to history except from that source.

After Paul VI's death, it considers Rome to have fallen into apostasy and all reigning pontiffs in the [[Vatican City]] from [[Pope John Paul I]] onwards to be non-Catholic [[Antipopes]] and "precursors to [[Antichrist]]". The Palmarian Church claims that, following the death of Pope Paul VI in 1978, [[Jesus Christ]] mystically elevated Clemente Domínguez to the papacy as [[Clemente Domínguez y Gómez|Pope Gregory XVII]] and from this point on the Holy See has been located in El Palmar de Troya. The full title used by the Palmarian Pope is "''Sovereign Pontiff, [[Vicar of Christ]], Successor of Saint Peter, [[Servant of the servants of God]], Patriarch of El Palmar de Troya, Herald of the Lord God of Hosts, Aflame with the Zeal of [[Elijah|Elias]].''" Other titles used by the Palmarian Pontiff include "King of the Universe", "[[Caudillo]]" and the "Great [[Tagus (title)|Tagus]]."<ref name="gpc">Câmara Dantas, Pedro Luiz. (2021). [https://www.academia.edu/59054173/SOB_O_OLHAR_DA_VIRGEM_FESTEJANDO_UMA_IGREJA_TRANSFERIDA_O_SANTO_MAGNO_E_DOGM%C3%81TICO_CONC%C3%8DLIO_PALMARIANO_1980_1992_?ri_id=3760945 Under the Eye of the Virgin, Celebrating a Transferred Church: The Holy, Great and Dogmatic Palmarian Council (1980-1992)]. Academia.edu</ref>

====Succession====

To date, there have been four Popes in El Palmar de Troya and the current incumbent is [[Joseph Odermatt|Pope Peter III]], since 2016. The Palmarian Church had a [[College of Cardinals]] between 1978 and 1995, but it never had the opportunity to select a Pope in a [[conclave]]. So far in the history of the Palmarian Church, each Pope has chosen his successor by decree, and has chosen his Secretary of State.{{sfn|Lundberg|2020|pp=125, 176, 185}}

There is some precedent for this from [[Papal selection before 1059|before 1059]] in the Catholic Church, when at times a pope would often nominate his preferred successor. On the question of whether the pope can appoint his successor, Catholic theologians and canonists have historically been divided. Some assert absolutely that he can; others, such as [[Thomas Cajetan|Cajetan]], [[Juan de Torquemada (cardinal)|Torquemada]], and [[Peter Paludanus|Paludanus]], say that he is forbidden to appoint his own successor by divine and natural law, so that if he attempted it, the appointment would be void; others, such as [[Francisco Suárez|Suárez]], take a middle position that the pope can choose his successor in rare cases when urgent necessity of the Church requires it, but cannot prescribe this as the ordinary mode of succession, and if he were to do so it should not be observed, because the regular institution of a practice so inclined to lead to [[nepotism]] would be an unjust law.<ref>{{cite dictionary |last=Ortolan |first=T. |title=Élection des papes |encyclopedia=Dictionnaire de théologie catholique |volume=IV |year=1910 |at=coll. 2281–5 |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionnairedetv4pt2vaca/page/503/mode/1up}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Petra |first=Vincenzo |title=Commentaria ad constitutiones apostolicas seu bullas singulas Summorum Pontificum |volume=IV |location=Rome |year=1711 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=sMdzk1KPk3cC&pg=PA213 213–5]}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Ferraris |first=Lucius |authorlink=Lucius Ferraris |title=Papa |encyclopedia=Bibliotheca canonica iuridica moralis theologica |location=Rome |publisher=Polyglot Press of the [[Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples|Propaganda]] |volume=VI |year=1890 |pages=26–30 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uJ8sAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA26}}</ref><ref>Suárez, ''De fide,'' disp. X, sec. IV, [https://books.google.com/books?id=aCcNAAAAYAAJ&lr&pg=PA311 nn. 14–16]</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Castellari |first=Giovanni |title=La Santa Sede |volume=II |location=Milan |year=1903 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=8qELAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA634 634–9]}}</ref> {{ill|Anton Straub|de}} argues that there is no reason the pope's supreme power should not extend to the appointment of his successor, and that while a number of historical popes expressed their belief that they are incapable of this, they did not define that.<ref>{{cite book |last=Straub |first=Anton |title=De Ecclesia Christi |location=Innsbruck |year=1912 |volume=I |pages=492–5}}</ref>

In the 6th century, [[Pope Felix IV|Felix III]] appointed [[Pope Boniface II|Boniface II]] as his successor, and though his wishes were initially disregarded, Boniface was accepted as such after the death of [[Antipope Dioscorus]]; yet when Boniface attempted in like manner to appoint [[Pope Vigilius|Vigilius]] as his successor, he was compelled by the clergy to retract this decree as contrary to divine law.<ref>{{cite book |last=Baus |first=Karl |translator-last=Biggs |translator-first=Anselm |chapter=The Papacy between Byzantium and the German Kingdoms from Hilary (461–468) to Sergius I (687–701) |title=The Imperial Church from Constantine to the Early Middle Ages |location=London |publisher=Burns & Oates |year=1980 |isbn=0-86012-084-8 |page=626}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Duchesne |first=Louis |author-link=Louis Duchesne |title=L'Église au VI<sup>e</sup> siècle |location=Paris |year=1925 |pages=142–146 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HjK9pfbfYhUC}}</ref>

====Divergences from the conventional [[list of popes]]====

Although Vigilius is traditionally considered to have later become pope from 537 to 555, the [[Palmarian Bible#History of the Popes|Palmarian History of the Popes]] calls him an antipope and says that one "Saint Virgil the Great" was pope during this time, presided over a Second Council of Constantinople which took place at the same time as the [[Second Council of Constantinople]] under Vigilius, and was murdered and erased from history by Vigilius. A "Donus II" is said to have reigned in place of [[Pope Conon]]. [[Pope Sergius III|Sergius III]] is judged an antipope, and [[Antipope Christopher|Christopher]] the true pope during his time; a different man named Sergius III is then posited as true pope in the time of [[Pope Lando]].

[[Pope John XII]] is called an antipope who opposed a pope named Saint Leo VIII; the historical [[Pope Leo VIII]] may be identical either with St Leo VIII or with an Antipope Leo VIII said to have opposed [[Pope Benedict V]]. [[Antipope Boniface VII]] is said to have been an antipope for eleven years, then the true pope for three. [[Antipope John XVI]] is said to have opposed a true pope also named John XVI. The last two years of [[Pope John XIX|John XIX]]'s reign are assigned to a "[[Pope John (numbering)#John XX|John XX]]."

[[Pope Benedict IX|Benedict IX]] and [[Pope Sylvester III|Sylvester III]] are said to have been antipopes who opposed a non-historical Benedict IX and Benedict X. [[Pope Martin IV|Martin IV]] and [[Pope Honorius IV|Honorius IV]] are said to have been antipopes opposed to another man named Martin IV and one Alexander V. The authority of the [[Council of Vienne]] is rejected. At the time of the [[Western schism]], where some Catholic authorities differ on which line of popes was the true one, the Palmarian History of the Popes acknowledges [[Pope Urban VI|Urban VI]] and his successors as the true popes, and rejects the claimants elected by the authority of the [[Council of Pisa]].

Because the historical Benedict IX became pope on three separate occasions, and is therefore conventionally counted as the 145th, 147th, and 150th pope, his replacement with the Palmarian Benedict IX, said to have had one continuous pontificate, causes a difference in the numbering of subsequent popes, balanced by the addition of Boniface VII, the Palmarian John XVI, and John XX. Pope Paul VI is therefore counted by the Palmarian Catholic Church as the 263rd pope, whereas he is usually called the 262nd.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; width: 80%;"
! width="2%" | {{Abbr|No.|Number}}
! width="80px" | Portrait
! width="20%" |Papal name
! Personal name<br /><small>(Birth–Death)</small>
! Epithet
! Pontificate
|-
|264 <small>(Catholic)</small><Br>1 <small>(Palmarian)</small>
| 
| '''[[Clemente Domínguez y Gómez|Gregory XVII]]'''
| Clemente Domínguez y Gómez<br /><small>(1946–2005)</small>
| ''[[Prophecy of the Popes|de Glória Olívæ]]''<br /><small>(Glory of the Olive)</small>
| 6 August 1978 – 21 March 2005<br /><small>(27 years)</small>
|-
|265 <small>(Catholic)</small><Br>2 <small>(Palmarian)</small>
|
| '''[[Manuel Corral|Peter II]]'''
| Manuel Alonso Corral<br /><small>(1934–2011)</small>
| ''de Cruce Apocalýptica''<br /><small>(Of the Apocalyptic Cross)</small>
| 21 March 2005 – 15 July 2011 <br /><small>(6 years)</small>
|-
|266 <small>(Catholic)</small><Br>3 <small>(Palmarian)</small>
| [[File:Gregorio XVIII y Pedro III (Gregorio XVIII).jpg|80px]]
| '''[[Ginés Jesús Hernández|Gregory XVIII]]'''
| Ginés Jesús Hernández y Martinez<br /><small>(1959–)</small>
| ''Recéptor Christi''<br /><small>(Receiver of Christ)</small>
| 15 July 2011 – 22 April 2016<br /><small>(5 years)</small>
|-
|267 <small>(Catholic)</small><Br>4 <small>(Palmarian)</small>
| [[File:Papa Pedro III Iglesia Palmariana (cropped).jpg|80px]]
| '''[[Joseph Odermatt|Peter III]]'''
| Markus Josef Odermatt<br /><small>(1966–)</small>
| ''de Glória Ecclésiæ''<br /><small>(Glory of the Church)</small>
| 22 April 2016 – present<br /><small>({{age|2016|4|23}} years)</small>
|}