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The termsOld Catholic Church,Old Catholics,Old-Catholic churches,[4]orOld Catholic movement,[5]designate "any of the groups ofWestern Christianswho believe themselves to maintain in complete loyalty the doctrine and traditions of theundivided churchbut who separated from thesee of Romeafter theFirst Vatican councilof 1869–70 ".[6][7]

The expression Old Catholic has been used from the 1850s by communions separated from theRoman Catholic Churchover certain doctrines, primarily concerned withpapal authorityandinfallibility.Some of these groups, especially in theNetherlands,had already existed long before the term. The Old Catholic Church is separate and distinct fromTraditionalist Catholicism.

Two groups of Old Catholic churches currently exist: theUnion of Utrecht(UU) and theUnion of Scranton(US). Neither group is infull communionwith theHoly See.Member churches of the Union of Utrecht are in full communion with theAnglican Communionas well as theEvangelical Lutheran Church of Swedenand thePhilippine Independent Church[8][9]and many UU churches are members of theWorld Council of Churches.[10][11]

Both groups trace their beginning to the 18th century when members of theSee of Utrechtrefused to obey papal authority and wereexcommunicated.Later Catholics who disagreed with the RomanCatholic dogmaofpapal infallibility,as defined by theFirst Vatican Council(1870), were thereafter without a bishop and joined with the See of Utrecht to form the Union of Utrecht of the Old Catholic Churches. Today, Utrechter Union churches are found chiefly in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, and the Czech Republic.

In 2008, thePolish National Catholic Churchcreated the Union of Scranton and separated from the Union of Utrecht. This was done in protest of the older Union's decision toordain womenand blesssame-sex marriages.TheNordic Catholic Churchlater joined the Union of Scranton as well.

History

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Pre-Reformation diocese and archdiocese of Utrecht

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Main article:Archdiocese of Utrecht (695–1580)

In the pre-Reformationera, there were already disputes that set the stage for an independent bishopric of Utrecht between theCatholic Churchand theHoly Roman Empire,notably during between the 11th to 15th centuries.

Post-Reformation Netherlands

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Main articles:Old Catholic Church of the NetherlandsandOld Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht

The northern provinces that revolted against theSpanish Netherlandsand signed the 1579Union of Utrecht,persecuted the Roman Catholic Church, confiscated church property, expelled monks and nuns from convents and monasteries, and made it illegal to receive theCatholic sacraments.[12]However, Catholicism did not die, rather priests and communities went underground. Groups would meet for thesacramentsin the attics of private homes at the risk of arrest.[13]Priests identified themselves by wearingall black clothingwithvery simple collars.[14]

All theepiscopal seesof the area, including that of Utrecht, had fallen vacant by 1580, because theSpanish crown,which since 1559had patronal rights over all bishoprics in the Netherlands,refused to make appointments for what it saw ashereticalterritories, and the nomination of anapostolic vicarwas seen as a way of avoiding direct violation of the privilege granted to the crown.[14]The appointment of an apostolic vicar, the first after many centuries, for what came to be called theHolland Missionwas followed by similar appointments for other Protestant-ruled countries, such asEngland,which likewise became mission territories.[14]The disarray of the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands between 1572 and about 1610 was followed by a period of expansion of Roman Catholicism under the apostolic vicars,[15]leading to Protestant protests.[16]

The initial shortage of Roman Catholic priests in the Netherlands resulted in increased pastoral activity ofreligiousclergy, among whomJesuitsformed a considerable minority, coming to represent between 10 and 15 percent of all the Dutch clergy in the 1600–1650 period. Conflicts arose between these, and the apostolic vicars andsecular clergy.[17]In 1629, there were 321 Roman Catholic priests in the United Provinces, 250 secular and 71 religious, with Jesuits at 34 forming almost half of the religious. By the middle of the 17th century the secular priests were 442, the religious 142, of whom 62 were Jesuits.[18]

The sixth apostolic vicar of theDutch/Holland Mission,Petrus Codde,was appointed in 1688. In 1691, the Jesuits accused him of favouring theJansenistheresy.[19]Pope Innocent XIIappointed a commission ofcardinalsto investigate the accusations against Codde. The commission concluded that the accusations were groundless.[20]In 1702,Pope Clement XIdeposed Codde, to which Codde obeyed.[21]

While the religious clergy remained loyal to the Holy See, three-quarters of the secular clergy at first followed Codde, but by 1706 over two-thirds of these returned to Roman Catholic allegiance.[22]Of the laity, the overwhelming majority sided with the Holy See.[18]Thus, most Dutch Catholics remained in full communion with the pope and with theapostolic vicarsappointed by him.

After Codde's resignation, the Diocese of Utrecht electedCornelius Steenovenasbishop.[23]The See of Utrecht declared the right to elect its own archbishop in 1724, after being accused ofJansenism.Following consultation with both canon lawyers and theologians in France and Germany,Dominique Marie Varlet,a Catholic bishop of the French Oratorian Society of Foreign Missions, consecrated Steenoven as a bishop without a papal mandate.[24]What had beende jureautonomous becamede factoan independent Catholic church. Although the pope was notified of all proceedings, the Holy See still regarded the diocese as vacant due to papal permission not being sought. The pope, therefore, continued to appoint apostolic vicars for the Netherlands. Steenoven and the other bishops wereexcommunicatedby the Roman Catholic Church, and thus began theOld Catholic Church in the Netherlands.[13]Subsequent bishops were then appointed and ordained to the sees ofDeventer,HaarlemandGroningenunder theSee of Utrechtin later years.[25]

Due to prevailing anti-papal feeling among the powerful DutchCalvinists,the Church of Utrecht was tolerated and even praised by the government of theDutch Republic.[26]

In 1853Pope Pius IXreceived guarantees ofreligious freedomfrom KingWilliam II of the Netherlandsandre-established the Roman Catholic hierarchy in the Netherlands.[27]The Holy See considers theRoman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrechtas the continuation of theepiscopal seefounded in the 7th century and raised to metropolitan status on 12 May 1559, thus not recognizing any legitimacy of Old Catholics.[28]

First Vatican Council, Old Catholic Union of Utrecht

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After theFirst Vatican Council(1869–1870), several groups of Roman Catholics inAustria-Hungary,Imperial Germany,andSwitzerlandrejected theRoman Catholic dogmaofpapal infallibility in matters of faith and moralsand left to form their own churches.[29]The formation of the Old Catholic communion of Germans, Austrians and Swiss began under the leadership ofIgnaz von Döllinger,following the First Vatican Council.[4]These were supported by theOld Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht,who ordained priests and bishops for them. Later the Dutch were united more formally with many of these groups under the name "Utrecht Union of Churches".[30]

In the spring of 1871, a convention inMunichattracted several hundred participants, includingChurch of Englandand Protestant observers.[31]Döllinger, an excommunicated Roman Catholic priest and church historian, was a notable leader of the movement but was never a member of an Old Catholic church.[32]

The convention decided to form the "Old Catholic Church" in order to distinguish its members from what they saw as the novel teaching in the Roman Catholic dogma of papal infallibility. Although it had continued to use theRoman Rite,from the middle of the 18th century the Dutch Old Catholic See of Utrecht had increasingly used thevernacularinstead of Latin. The churches which broke from the Holy See in 1870 and subsequently entered into union with the Old Catholic See of Utrecht gradually introduced the vernacular into theliturgyuntil it completely replaced Latin in 1877.[33]In 1874, the Old Catholics removed the requirement ofclerical celibacy.[20]

TheCatholic Diocese of the Old Catholics in Germanyreceived support from the government ofOtto von Bismarck,whose 1870sKulturkampfpolicies persecuted the Roman Catholic Church.[34]In Austria-Hungary,pan-Germanic nationalist groups,like those ofGeorg Ritter von Schönerer,promoted the conversion of all German speaking Catholicsto Old Catholicism and Lutheranism, with poor results.[35]

Spread of Old Catholicism throughout the world

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Old Catholicparishchurch inGablonz an der Neiße,Austria-Hungary(now Jablonec nad Nisou,Czech Republic). Some ethnic German Roman Catholics supported Döllinger in his rejection of the Roman Catholic dogma of papal infallibility.

In 1897 a group of Polish migrants in the United States broke away from the Holy See due to theological and liturgical issues; their leader,Franciszek Hodur,was consecrated a bishop by Old Catholic Archbishop of UtrechtGerardus Gul,establishing thePolish National Catholic Church,which joined the Union of Utrecht.

Split of Old Roman Catholics and Liberal Catholics

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In 1910,Arnold Mathew—a formerBritish Catholicand Anglican, who was consecrated by Old Catholic Archbishop Gul in 1908—split away from the Union of Utrecht, establishing theOld Roman Catholic Church in Great Britain.In 1914, he consecratedRudolph de Landas Berghes,who emigrated to the United States in 1914 and planted the seed of Old Roman Catholicism in the Americas. Mathew also consecrated an excommunicated Capuchin Franciscan priest as bishop:Carmel Henry Carfora.[36]VariousChristian denominationsclaimingapostolic successionfrom Mathew were founded in the world through Berghes, Carfora, and others includingJames Wedgwood—founder of theLiberal Catholic Church.Such groups' apostolic succession is deemed to be invalid by both theHoly See,theUnion of Utrechtand theAnglican Communion.Mathew himself wasexcommunicatedand declared a "pseudo-bishop" byPope Pius X,[37]while theInternational Old Catholic Bishops' Conferencedeclared his consecration to benull and void,obtainedmala fide.[38]

Another significant figure,Joseph René Vilatte,who was ordained a deacon and priest by BishopEduard Herzog,of theChristian Catholic Church of Switzerland;[39]he worked with Catholics of Belgian ancestry living on theDoor PeninsulaofWisconsin,with the knowledge and blessing of the Union of Utrecht and under the full jurisdiction of the local Episcopal Bishop ofFond du Lac, Wisconsin.[40]However, he subsequently left the Old Catholics and was later consecrated a bishop by PatriarchMar Julius Iof theMalankara Orthodox Syrian Church,though the validity of such consecration is disputed.[38]He proceeded to establish a number of Christian denominations before eventually reconciling with the Holy See.[41]

Polish National Catholic schism from Utrecht

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In 2003, the Polish National Catholic Church voted itself out of theUUdue to the Utrechter Union's acceptance of female ordination, and their attitude towardshomosexuality,both of which the Polish National Catholic Church rejects.[42][43]Prior, in 1994, the German Old Catholic bishops of the Utrechter Union decided toordain women as priests,and put this into practice on 27 May 1996. Similar decisions and practices followed in Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands.[44]By 2020, the Swiss church also voted in favour ofsame-sex marriage.Marriages between two men and two women were conducted in the same manner as heterosexual marriages.[45]

Old Catholic Church of Slovakia

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The Old Catholic Church of Slovakia was accepted in 2000 as a member of the Union of Utrecht.[46]As early as 2001 some issues arose concerning future consecration of Augustin Bacinsky as old-catholic bishop of Slovakia, and the matter was postponed.[47]The Old Catholic Church of Slovakia was expelled from the Union of Utrecht in 2004, because the episcopal administrator Augustin Bacinsky had been consecrated by anepiscopus vagans.[48]

At present, the only recognized Christian church in America that is in communion with the Union of Utrecht is theEpiscopal Church.[49]

Statistics

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As of 2016,there are 115,000 members of Old Catholic churches.[50]

Church Membership
Catholic Diocese of the Old-Catholics in Germany 15,500[51]
Old Catholic Church of Austria 14,621[52]
Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands 10,000[53]
Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland 13,500[54]
Old Catholic Mariavite Church in Poland 29,000[55]
Polish Catholic Church in Poland[b] 20,000[56]

Doctrine

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Old Catholic theology views theEucharistas the core of theChristian Church;from this point of view, the church is a community of believers. All are incommunionwith one another around the sacrifice ofJesus Christ,as the highest expression of the love ofGod.Therefore, the celebration of the Eucharist is understood as the experience of Christ's triumph oversin.The defeat of sin consists in bringing together that which is divided.[57]

An active contributor to the Declaration of the Catholic Congress of Munich, 1871—and all later assemblies—wasJohann Friedrich von Schulte,professor ofdogmaticsatPrague.Von Schulte summed up the results of the congress as follows:[58]

  • adherence to the ancient Catholic faith;
  • maintenance of the rights of Catholics;
  • rejection of new Roman Catholic dogmas;
  • adherence to the constitutions of the ancient Church with repudiation of every dogma of faith not in harmony with the by-then established conscience of the Church;
  • reform of the Church with constitutional participation of the laity;
  • preparation of the way for reunion of the Christian confessions;
  • reform of the training and position of the clergy;
  • adherence to the State against the attacks ofUltramontanism;
  • rejection of theSociety of Jesus;
  • claim to the real property of the Church

The 1889Declaration of Utrechtstates the Union of Utrecht believes inVincent of Lérins'sfollowing quote from hisCommonitory:"all possible care must be taken, that we hold that faith which has been believed everywhere, always, by all; for this is truly what iscatholic".[59][60]TheUUallows those who aredivorcedto have a new religious marriage in the church,[61]and Old Catholics had gradually replaced the Latin mass with the vernacular by 1877.[33]In 1989, the Union of Utrecht opposedabortion,but "[u]nusual exceptions should be made in consultation with a priest".[62]

Apostolic succession

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Old Catholicism valuesapostolic successionby which they mean both the uninterrupted laying on of hands by bishops through time (thehistoric episcopate), and the continuation of the whole life of the church community by word and sacrament over the years and ages. Old Catholics consider apostolic succession to be the handing on of belief in which the whole Church is involved. In this process the ministry has a special responsibility and task, caring for the continuation in time of the mission of Jesus Christ and his apostles.[57]

According to the principle ofex opere operato,certain ordinations by bishops not in communion with Rome arestill recognised as being valid by the Holy See,and the ordinations of and by Old Catholic bishops in the Union of Utrecht churches has never been formally questioned by the Holy See until the more recent ordinations of women as priests.[63]

Ecumenism

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The Union of Utrecht considers that the reunion of the churches has to be based on a re-actualization of the decisions of faith made by the undivided Church. In that way, they claim, theoriginal unity of the Churchcould be made visible again. Following these principles, later bishops and theologians of the Union of Utrechts churches stayed in contact withRussian Orthodox,LutheranandAnglicanrepresentatives.[3][64]

Old Catholic involvement in the multilateralecumenicalmovement formally began with the participation of two bishops, from the Netherlands and Switzerland, at the Lausanne Faith and Order (F&O) conference (1927). This side of ecumenism has always remained a major interest for Old Catholics who have never missed an F&O conference. Old Catholics also participate in other activities of the WCC and of national councils of churches. By active participation in the ecumenical movement since its very beginning, the OCC demonstrates its belief in this work.[64]

See also

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People

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Notes

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  1. ^The organizationPolish Catholic Church in Poland,a member church of theUU,is not to be confused with theCatholic Church in Polandor confused with thePolish National Catholic Church,a former member church of theUU.
  2. ^Polish Catholic Church in Poland,a member church of theUU,is not to be confused with theCatholic Church in Polandor confused with thePNCC,a former member church of theUU.

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Further reading

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  • Episcopi Vagantes and the Anglican Church.Henry R.T. Brandreth.London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1947.
  • Episcopi vagantes in church history.A.J. Macdonald. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1945.
  • The Old Catholic Church: A History and Chronology(The Autocephalous Orthodox Churches, No. 3).Karl Pruter.Highlandville, Missouri: St. Willibrord's Press, 1996.
  • The Old Catholic Sourcebook(Garland Reference Library of Social Science). Karl Pruter andJ. Gordon Melton.New York: Garland Publishers, 1983.
  • The Old Catholic Churches and Anglican Orders.C.B. Moss. The Christian East, January, 1926.
  • The Old Catholic Movement.C.B. Moss. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1964.
  • "La Sainte Trinité dans la théologie de Dominique Varlet, aux origines du vieux-catholicisme". Serge A. Thériault.Internationale Kirchliche Zeitschrift,Jahr 73, Heft 4 (Okt.-Dez. 1983), p. 234-245.
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