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2 unusual facts about Old Catholic Church


Albrecht Ritschl

This did not last long with him, however, for the second edition (1857) of his most important work, on the origin of the Old Catholic Church (Die Entstehung der alt-kathol. Kirche), shows considerable divergence from the first edition (1850), and reveals an entire emancipation from Baur's method.

Ernst Melzer

Initially a prominent supporter of Güntherianism, in the 1870s he became involved with the German Old Catholic movement.


Johann Friedrich von Schulte

Schulte opposed the First Vatican Council, and was architect of the basic templates regarding church law for organization of the German Old Catholic Church.

Varlet

Dominique Marie Varlet (1678–1742), Roman Catholic bishop during the church's Post Reformation Netherlands period


see also

Emmanuel Milingo

The others were Archbishop Peter Paul Brennan of the African Orthodox Church and the Ecumenical Catholic Diocese of the Americas, who according to one website was first consecrated a bishop on June 10, 1978, and subsequently reconsecrated in October 1979 and twice more in March 1987; Archbishop Patrick E. Trujillo of the Old Catholic Church in America and Archbishop Joseph J. Gouthro of Las Vegas, presiding bishop of the Catholic Apostolic Church International (CACI).

Morović

The old Catholic church from the 13th century, built in both romanesque and gothic styles is a very noteworthy monument.