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Old Catholic Church
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Noun1.Old Catholic Church - Catholic churches that broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in the 18th century
Catholic Church - any of several churches claiming to have maintained historical continuity with the original Christian Church
Old Catholic - a member of the church formed in the 19th century by German Catholics who refused to accept the infallibility of the Pope


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The Old Catholic movement had come to nothing because Rome disregarded issues relating to apostolic succession--which the Old Catholics had through Jansenist bishops--even as it brushed aside scores of dissident "churches" sometimes set up by legitimately consecrated bishops.
John the Beloved in Pennsylvania, which claims connection to the Old Catholic movement that broke from Rome in the late 19th century.
 
 
 
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