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The Doctrine of Universal and Peaceful Acceptance
There is no doctrine that has been articulated to deal with this exact question. But the church has not answered this question for us in any explicit way. And theology theologians have not typically looked at this kind of scenario. If he's not ordained as a bishop, he's not Pope period. That would be the standard and safe answer.