Henricus Loos

Henricus Loos
Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht
Church	Old Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Utrecht
In office	1858-1873
Predecessor	Johannes van Santen
Successor	Johannes Heykamp

Henricus Loos served as the fifteenth Archbishop of Utrecht from 1858 to 1873. Together with Bishop Hermann Heykamp of Deventer, Loos is known as one of only two bishops whose orders were recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, but who were not invited to the First Vatican Council. Loos served as Archbishop of Utrecht during the first two Old Catholic Congresses in Munich in 1871 and in Cologne in 1872.

Death

Loos died on June 4, 1873, the day on which Josef Hubert Reinkens was elected Old Catholic Bishop of Bonn. C.B. Moss writes: “The Ultramontanes were jubilant, and said [his death] was a judgment from heaven.”

References

Moss, C.B. (1948). The Old Catholic Movement: Its Origins and History. Berkeley, CA: The Apocryphal Press.