[b]Solved[/b] by first redirecting to a JSP page which in turn redirects to the JSF error page using the JSTL tag c:redirect, instead of the JSP tag jsp:forward which, for some reason, doesn't work (except from the very first page index.jsp which is supposed to initialize JSF).
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