Old Catholicism

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Mathew believed that Old Catholicism would provide a home for these disaffected clergy; however, the mass conversions failed to occur.

Roman Catholicism's formal separation from Old Catholicism occurred over the issue of Papal authority.

In particular, Mayor Syrée's and his liberal followers' conversion to Old Catholicism brought yet another religious figure into the fray.

Thus all Liberal Catholic churches claim to trace their apostolic succession back to Rome through Old Catholicism.

Bishop de Berghes, in spite of his isolation, was able to plant the seed of Old Catholicism in the Americas.

"Our Church is rooted and grounded in Christ's Gospel and in the traditional heritage of Old Catholicism.

Vilatte, on returning to North America, reverted to Old Catholicism and went on to found several Old Catholic groups.

The "European Old Catholics neither sanctioned his consecration nor approved of his attempt to spread Old Catholicism to America.

Numerous religious sects arose, varying from the old Catholicism and the new Reformation to sects which rejected the Trinity and denied the divinity of Jesus.

Old Catholic ministry is individualised and unobtrusive in nature and reflects the geographically dispersed nature of Old Catholicism in the United Kingdom.

The Conferences of Reunion in Bonn in 1874 and 1875 convoked by Johann von Döllinger, the leading personality of Old Catholicism, are famous.

However, the historical theological differences that developed between Old Catholicism (Utrecht Union) and Old Roman Catholicism (Mathew) and became visible in 1910 may provide some issues.

Pruter's introduction to the Free Catholic Movement and Old Catholicism came in 1963, when he traveled to Europe where he met several leaders of the Old Catholic tradition.

Christianity is composed of, but not limited to, five major branches of Churches: Catholicism, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, Protestant, and Old Catholicism.

Most Catholics are unaware of the existence of Old Catholicism which represents a relatively recent split from the Catholic Church and is particularly vocal in rejecting their use of the term Catholic.

Spaniards would become leaders of the Counter-Reformation initiated by the Council of Trent (1545-63), which was a modernizing movement that brought the old Catholicism into line with the streamlined efficiency of the new Europe.

The Old Catholics maintained that their ordinations were valid within the Catholic tradition, and the Liberal Catholic Church thus claims to trace its apostolic succession back to Rome through Old Catholicism.

One of Bishop Arnold Harris Mathew's successors excommunicated him from Old Catholicism in 1944 and he finally accepted ordination into the Russian Orthodox Catholic Church in America in 1962.

In Austrian territories, pan-Germanic nationalist groups, like those of Georg Ritter von Schönerer, promoted the conversion to Old Catholicism or Lutheranism of those Catholics loyal to the Holy See.

Doctrine of Fraternity, out of old Catholicism, does, it is true, very strangely in the vehicle of a Jean-Jacques Evangel, suddenly plump down out of its cloud-firmament; and from a theorem determine to make itself a practice.

Old Catholicism values apostolic succession by which they mean both the uninterrupted laying on of hands by bishops through time and the continuation of the whole life of the church community by word and sacrament over the years and ages.

Aus den Akten und anderen authentischen Quellen dargestellt (Old Catholicism - History of its Development, Interior Composition and Legal Position in Germany, according to Documents and other Authenticated Sources)

The other founder of mainstream United States Old Catholicism, Vilatte, was influenced towards his course by Charles Chiniquy, another apostate Catholic priest who fell out because he was removed from the ministry for seducing girls under his charge.

Mathew expressed fears that the trend of Continental Old Catholicism was towards Modernism, perhaps because of the growing association with Anglicans and Lutherans, and hoped for a return to the traditional principles of the Church of Utrecht.