old catholic in English

noun
1
a member of any of various religious groups that have separated from the Roman Catholic Church since the Reformation, especially over the tenets of papal primacy and infallibility.
The Old Catholics split with the Roman Catholic Church in 1870 over papal infallibility.

Use "old catholic" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "old catholic" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "old catholic", or refer to the context using the word "old catholic" in the English Dictionary.

1. But the solution would represent such a dramatic reversal of age-old Catholic doctrine as to undermine any pretense of papal infallibility.

2. The Angelus is a centuries-old Catholic devotion that recalls the annunciation of Christ’s birth by the Angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary

3. " - This blessing is inscribed on a marble tomb plate, built in the altar of the Old Catholic church in Malko Tarnovo and dates back to 2nd century BC.

4. Within the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Moravian, Anglican, Old Catholic and Independent Catholic churches, as well as the Assyrian Church of the East, Bishops claim apostolic succession, a direct historical lineage dating

5. 'The Orthodox Anglican Communion is a world wide fellowship of national churches (with Apostolic Succession derived through and shared with the Anglican Communion, the Old Catholic Union of Utrecht, and the Orthodox Church) that are committed to the historic faith in the Anglican tradition; the Communion is represented in the United States of

6. The University of the Canton of Berne was founded in 1834 by the reorganization of the academy already in existence; it has a Protestant theological faculty, an Old Catholic theological faculty, and faculties of philosophy, law, medicine, and veterinary medicine; its yearly expenses are 880,000 francs ($176,000), and the endowment amounts to