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Definition of Old Catholic Church
1. Noun. Catholic churches that broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in the 18th century.
Definition of Old Catholic Church
1. Proper noun. A particular Christian denomination that split from the Roman Catholic Church over matters of doctrine ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Old Catholic Church
Literary usage of Old Catholic Church
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1872)
"... this practical realization to be attained in that they (the Government) ; (-4)
Consider the Catholics holding fast to the Old Catholic Church, ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1912)
"Rise of the Old Catholic Church (j 1). Orthodox Catholic Church and its Statement
of Faith (} 2). Aims of the Orthodox Catholic Church (5 3). ..."
3. History of the Christian Church by George Herbert Dryer (1896)
"WORSHIP OF THE Old Catholic Church. OUR next period treats of the worship of the
old Catholic Church—the period from 170 until 381, or until the settlement ..."
4. History of Christian Doctrine by George Park Fisher (1896)
"CHAPTER VI THE RISE OF THE Old Catholic Church—THE RULE OF FAITH — THE CANON —
THE EPISCOPATE THE RISE AND THE EXCLUSION OF MONTANISM THE course of the ..."
5. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1890)
"Formation and Development of the Old Catholic Church in the German Empire.—In
the beginning of August, 1870, the hitherto exemplary Catholic professor ..."
6. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The bishops of the Old Catholic Church in Germany are chosen by the ... In Austria
the Old Catholic Church has 24 parishes and upward of 16.000 members. ..."
7. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1875)
"It was provided that as long as the Old Catholic church had no bishop of her own,
the bishops of the Old Catholic church of Holland, and those bishops of ..."
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