North American Old Catholic Church
The North American Old Catholic Church (NAOCC) is a community of 22 independent Catholic churches based in the United States and Canada.
History[edit]
The North American Old Catholic Church was formed in January 2007 in Louisville, Kentucky, as a community of independent Catholic churches, with Archbishop Michael Seneco being elected as the community's first presiding bishop.[1][2] This United States-based organization traced its history to an 1870 movement in the Netherlands that dissented from the Roman Catholic Church largely over the 1869 First Vatican Council doctrine of papal infallibility,[2][3][4] a dogma of the Catholic Church which states that the pope is preserved from the possibility of error in certain circumstances.[5]
In 2009, the group included twenty Old Catholic churches in the United States,[6] with Washington, D.C., Texas, and Maryland each having two parishes, Florida having three, and the rest located in other states.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Amanda Abrams (October 15, 2012), Progressive Catholics find a home in breakaway group, The Salt Lake Tribune, p. 2, retrieved March 23, 2013
- ^ a b Janae Francis (October 15, 2011), Archbishop visits Ogden church, Standard-Examiner, retrieved March 23, 2013
- ^ Stephen Schwartz (March 18, 1993), Rev. Derek Stewart, San Francisco Chronicle, p. B7
- ^ a b Janae Francis (May 12, 2012), From Around The World, Standard-Examiner, retrieved March 23, 2013
- ^ "infallibility means more than exemption from actual error; it means exemption from the possibility of error", P. J. Toner, Infallibility, Catholic Encyclopedia, 1910
- ^ Hattie Bernstein (December 18, 2009), Catholic church eyes Brookline., The Telegraph (Nashua), retrieved March 23, 2013