Theodorus van der Croon

Theodorus van der Croon
Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht
Church	Old Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Utrecht
In office	1734-1739
Predecessor	Cornelius Johannes Barchman Wuytiers
Successor	Petrus Johannes Meindaerts
Orders
Consecration	28 October 1734 by Dominique Marie Varlet

Theodorus van der Croon (1668–1739) served as the ninth Archbishop of Utrecht from 1734 to 1739.

Early Ministry & Association with the Chapter of Utrecht

Van der Croon was a parish priest in Gouda, Netherlands and was associated with the Chapter of Utrecht since the days of Archbishop Petrus Codde (1688-1710).

Archbishop of Utrecht

Following the death of Cornelius Johannes Barchman Wuytiers, Archbishop of Utrecht, on 13 May 1733, the Chapter of Utrecht convened on 22 July 1733 and unanimously elected van der Croon as bishop elect. On 28 October 1734 he was consecrated by Bishop Dominique Marie Varlet of the Diocese of Babylon. Church historian C.B. Moss described van der Croon as "a man of particularly gentle disposition."

Van der Croon published a considerable number of works in Dutch and Latin.

References

Moss, C.B. (1948). The Old Catholic Movement: Its Origins and History. Berkeley, CA: The Apocryphal Press. ISBN 9780976402596.