Conspiracy Theories
The conspiracy theory of "Vicarius Filii Dei" (Vicar of the Son of God), supposedly considered an expansion of the historic title "Vicarius Christi", is a term used in the spurious "Donation of Constantine" to refer to Saint Peter. From the 19th century, because the interpretation of Uriah Smith, some groups of Seventh-day Adventists argue that the sentence is identified with the "number of the beast" (666), and would be used in the, calling the Pope would be the Antichrist. But due to lack of images or any source of Use "Vicarius Filii Dei" the tiara or mitre, and the term was never used as an official title (as well as the fact that their founder Ellen Gould White's name also adds up to 666 by the same system), the claim was abandoned by many Seventh-day Adventists.
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