101. Convocation Of American Churches In Europe | Our Partners In Europe Historical overview. The members of the Union of Utrecht, except for the PolishNational Catholic Church, have been in full communion with the churches of http://www.tec-europe.org/partners/Utrecht_partners.htm

Home About the Convocation Principles Partners in Europe Youth Across Europe FAQ The Bishop Parishes and Missions ... Site map Church of England Diocese in Europe COABICE-Lambeth Letter 1997/8 History of the Communion Partnership 1998 Madrid Consultation Portugal: Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church Porvoo Churches Provincial Consultations Spanish Episcopal Reformed Church Utrecht: Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht What is the Anglican Communion? apse study booklet (PDF format) apse study booklet (Word format) Glossary of terms The Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht In The Netherlands, in 1702 the Pope deposed Archbishop Petrus Codde and installed an Apostolic Vicar. As a consequence, in 1723 the Metropolitan Chapter of Utrecht decided to elect a new Archbishop. After his election, Cornelius Steenoven was consecrated by Bishop Dominique Maria Varlet. The Archbishop and the Metropolitan Chapter were excommunicated by the Pope, so it was necessary to reorganize the life of the Church without links to Rome. The ancient sees of Haarlem and Deventer were re-established (in 1742 and 1758 respectively) and for 150 years the Church of Utrecht had to persevere in isolation.

102. The Old Catholic Church In Wisconsin Associated with the Christian (old) Catholic and Gallican Catholic religiousmovement, Chiniquy and Vilatte came to Wisconsin and Illinois to minister to http://www.uwgb.edu/wisfrench/library/history/oldcatholic.htm

The Christian (Old) Catholic Church in Wisconsin The stories of French-Canadian priest, Charles Chiniquy, and French-born priest J. René Vilatte, are an interesting and important part of Wisconsin francophone history. Associated with the Christian (Old) Catholic and Gallican Catholic religious movement, Chiniquy and Vilatte came to Wisconsin and Illinois to minister to the French-Canadian, Swiss and Belgian residents of these states. Vilatte, who had lived in Namur, Belgium and who spoke wallon , the French dialect of the Belgian settlers in Northeast Wisconsin, arrived in Green Bay in 1884. Churches of the Christian Catholic tradition in the area today include the Church of the Precious Blood, Bruxelles-Gardner,(established by Vilatte in 1886) and the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Green Bay (established by Father J.B. Gauthier in 1909), both now part of the Episcopal Diocese of Fond du Lac, and the Robinsonville Presbyterian Church, Robinsonville, Wisconsin. The Current Bishop of the Christian Catholic Church, Mgr. Serge A. Thériault (Ottawa, Canada) graciously contributed the following introduction to the history of the Christian Catholic church in the states of Wisconsin and Illinois. Our translation of his French text follows along with further links to Fathers Vilatte and Chiniquy. Entre 1858 et 1860, 6,200 Canadiens-français (parmi lesquels se trouvaient des Français et des Belges) ont formé l'Église catholique-chrétienne (E.C.C.) en Illinois, sous le leadership du Révérend Charles Chiniquy: 375 familles à Sainte-Anne, 40 à Bourbonnais, 100 à Kankakee, 125 à Chicago, 30 à Petites-Îles, 50 à Momence, 35 à Middleport, 20 à Sainte-Marie, 15 à l'Érable, 16 à Barren, 50 à Ava et 30 à Châteauville. Réf. Rev. Baird, The French Canadian Mission in Illinois, AFCU, 1860, p. 3. L'É.C.C. fut rattachée, en 1860, à la Communion Presbytérienne, Consistoire de Chicago, puis Synode du Canada. Les entrées de baptême, mariage et sépulture de ces premiers catholiques-chrétiens ont été compilées par Mrs. Ardis M. Boone de Sainte-Anne (Illinois) et publiées par elle, dans un document intitulé Father Charles Chiniquy's Ledger.

103. Old Catholic Church/Facione The old Roman Catholic Church is a body of Christians committed to the Person ofJesus Christ and His teaching and, as shall become evident in this article, http://www.wrmosb.org/oldcath.html

White Robed Monks of St. Benedict An Historic Overview of the Old Roman Catholic Church by The Most Rev. Francis P. Facione It seems appropriate to begin this discussion with a statement of what the Old Roman Catholic Church is not. It is not a sect or a schism as some of its self-appointed critics may claim. The Old Roman Catholic Church is a body of Christians committed to the Person of Jesus Christ and His teaching and, as shall become evident in this article, forms an historic part of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. The Old Roman Catholic Church affirms its historic continuity with the Apostolic Church of the first century through the ancient See of Utrecht in Holland. St. Willibrord, the Apostle of the Netherlands was consecrated to the Episcopacy by Pope Sergius I in 696 A.D. at Rome. Upon his return to the Netherlands, he established his See at Utrecht. In addition, he established the dioceses at Deventer and Haarlem. One of his successors was St. Boniface, the Apostle of Germany. The Church of Utrecht also provided a worthy occupant for the Papal See in 1552 in the person of Pope Hadrian VI, while two of the most able exponents of the spiritual life, Geert Groote, who founded the Brothers of the Common Life, and Thomas a Kempis, who is credited with writing the Imitation of Christ, were both from the Dutch Church. Assenting to a petition made by the Holy Roman Emperor, Conrad II and Bishop Heribert of Utrecht, Blessed Pope Eugene III, in the year 1145 A.D., granted the Cathedral Chapter of Utrecht the right to elect successors to the See in times of vacancy. This privilege was affirmed by the Fourth Council of the Lateran in 1215. The autonomous character of the Ancient Catholic Church in the Netherlands was further demonstrated when a second papal grant by Pope Leo X, Debitum Pastoralis, conceded to Philip of Burgundy, the 57th Bishop of Utrecht, that neither he nor any of his successors, nor any of their clergy or laity, should ever, in the first instance, have his cause evoked to an external tribunal, not even under pretense of any apostolic letters whatever; and all such proceedings should be, ipso facto, null and void. This papal concession, in 1520, was of the greatest importance in the defense of the rights of the Church of Utrecht.

104. THE RESURRECTION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH old Catholic The schismatic church which follows Ignaz Dollinger and his falsecouncil in Munich. They reject the infallibility of the pope and the http://www.the-pope.com/glossary.html

GLOSSARY Absolute Sedevacantist A sedevacantist who believes that all authority has been lost by the leader of the Vatican institution, along with his cardinals and bishops. Aggiornamento A word used by John XXIII to describe what he intended to do to the Church, namely to bring it up to date (as if the Church were not eternally new already). Apostolic Visitor A personal representative of the pope who visits a seminary, religious order, or diocese in order to make an inspection of it and report back to the pope. Such visitors often wield a considerable authority with the seminary, religious order, or diocese they visit, greater than that of the applicable Bishop or Superior General. Cassiciacum Thesis A claim that the man elected to lead the Vatican institution might be materially a pope, but not formally so, otherwise known as sedevacantism of the Materialiter/Formaliter variety. Celebret the formal and proper name of the permission given to a diocesan priest to say the Indult Mass. In a few early cases, Cardinal Mayer even granted celebrets to diocesan priests who had in effect gone over their bishop's head. CMRI An Acronym for the Congregatio Mariae Reginae Immaculatae, which is Latin for the Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen. In this book, and in nearly all traditional Catholic writings, it refers to the priestly society founded in 1971 by Francis Shuckardt and which was run by him until his expulsion in 1984, after which various other priests and bishops have operated from their facility in Spokane, Washington known as Mount Saint Michael's. (See

105. THE APOSTOLIC TRADITION AND THE GOSPEL One became known as the independent communities that became old Catholic. How does the American old Catholic Church differ from a Roman Catholic Church? http://www.aocc.org/history.htm

History of "The American Old Catholic Church" We are Catholic Christian communities that are committed to the person of Jesus Christ and to His teaching. We accept and believe the testimony of His apostles who were His first disciples and eye witnesses of His life, death, and resurrection from the dead. It was these same disciples that passed on to the church their own testimony about the person of Jesus and the events of His life. Embodied in their testimony are the very teachings of Jesus Himself. THE APOSTOLIC TRADITION AND THE GOSPEL THE HOLY SPIRIT Within the Christian community people experience the very presence of God Himself. This presence of God is known as the Holy Spirit. It was the Holy Spirit that empowered the apostles so that they could continue the work of Jesus Christ in healing the sick and forgiving sins. Without the Holy Spirit there could not be an authentic Christian community. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH With the passing of time, the message of Jesus spread and the Church grew. Very early, the Church came to be called the Catholic Church. The word "catholic" means universal. What Christians meant when they used the term "catholic" was that Jesus Christ was universal; that the Church embodied those Christians who lived in Rome or Antioch, as well as those who lived in Jerusalem. It also meant that the Church included those Christians of the past as well as those of the present. In other words, the community founded by the apostles is one, continuous in both time and space.

106. Christ The King - Mission Vision The distinctive mission of the American old Catholic Church is twofold. The briefhistory of the AOCC DISTINCTIVE OF AMERICAN old CATHOLIC COMMUNITIES http://www.aocc.org/vision.htm

The American Old Catholic Church To express the fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Founded in Sacred Scripture, we seek to experience the full nature of the living, historic Catholic Church in its sacramental communion with a personal God; its charismatic joy in the Spirit; and its evangelistic zeal to share our blessed hope with all those who seek a deeper experience of God. "Each one using whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms." Hebrews 13:5 THE AMERICAN OLD CATHOLIC MISSION The distinctive mission of the American Old Catholic Church is twofold. The brief history of the AOCC serves to explain the particular call of the American Old Catholic Church to bear witness to, and be a living active example of, the essential spiritual unity that exists among all the branches of Catholicism. Therefore, through our archbishop, the American Old Catholic Church is one of the founding denominations of the Ecumenical Communion of Catholic and Apostolic Churches. The ECCAC is an ecclesial communion commissioned to affirm, recognize and pray for all the branches of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, and to embrace the clergy and laity of these branches as true brothers and sisters of Christ's One, Holy Church. In this, to be at least a prophetic pointer or prototype of unity in both an attitude of humility and charity, and in our works, worship and mission, that we may bear witness to that divine hope and calling, outwardly.

107. Fort Vancouver NHS: Historic Structures Report (Chapter 16) As did the old Office, the old Catholic Church stood only a few yards west ofthe line of the palisade 20 The old Roman Catholic Church was no more. http://www.nps.gov/fova/hsr/hsr2-16.htm

Fort Vancouver Historic Structures Report Volume II CHAPTER XVI: OLD CATHOLIC CHURCH History and location The structure at Fort Vancouver that by late 1845 was known as the "Old" Catholic Church had its beginnings as a warehouse. [ ] As shown by the Emmons ground plan of 1841 and the Vavasour map of 1845, the "Chapel" or "Old Roman Catholic Church" was situated directly south of the Old Office and formed part of a row of buildings that divided the fort courtyard into two sections. As did the Old Office, the Old Catholic Church stood only a few yards west of the line of the palisade that enclosed the small 1829-ca. 1836 fort on the east (see line BE on Plate I , vol. I). When the fort was enlarged to the east about 1836 this old line of pickets was removed, leaving three buildings standing isolated across the center of the yard. Archeological excavations in 1952 were unsuccessful in finding any traces of the Old Catholic Church. [ ] Therefore, the only reasonably precise evidence as to the exact location of this structure is the Vavasour map. According to that source, the chapel lay about twenty feet directly south of the Old Office and about 200 feet east of the Sale Shop. Its location is now designated as Building No. 1. [ ] on the site plan of Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.

108. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Home Online version of the classic 1913 encyclopedia explaining Catholic doctrines,past and present. Complete text of all articles. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/

Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... Home > Catholic Encyclopedia A B C D ... Z The Catholic Encyclopedia Click here to jump straight to the articles: A B C D ... Z Original Preface. The work is entirely new, and not merely a translation or a compilation from other encyclopedia sources. The Editors have insisted that the articles should contain the latest and most accurate information to be obtained from the standard works on each subject. Contributors have been chosen for their special knowledge and skill in presenting the subject, and they assume the responsibility for what they have written. Representing as they do Catholic scholarship in every part of the world, they give the work an international character. The Encyclopedia bears the imprimatur of the Most Reverend Archbishop under whose jurisdiction it is published. In constituting the Editors the ecclesiastical censors, he has given them a singular proof of his confidence and of his desire to facilitate the publication of the work which he has promoted most effectively by his influence and kindly co-operation. The Editors take occasion on the appearance of this first volume to express their gratitude to all who have taken part with them in this enterprise; in particular to the hierarchy for their cordial endorsement; to Catholic publishers and to the editors of the Catholic press for their frequent courtesies; to the contributors for their ready co-operation; to the original subscribers for their generous support; to the directors of the Company organized specially to produce the work, and to many non-Catholics for their kindly encouragement.

109. De Oud-katholieke Kerk Van Nederland official website OudKatholieke Kerk van Nederland, oud-katholiek, Oud-Katholiek,Oudkatholieke kerk, Oud-katholieke parochie, okkn, OKKN, okk, http://www.okkn.org/

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