OLD CATHOLIC CONFEDERATION

The Union of Utrecht of the Old Catholic Churches

History of the Old Catholic Church and the Union of Utrecht

Theology of the Old Catholic Church and the Union of Utrecht

Ecumenical Relations of the Union of Utrecht of Old Catholic Churches

The Union of Utrecht is a federation of Old Catholic Churches consisting of several national churches in Europe, especially in the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic and Poland. The Old Catholic Church objects to the papal claim of universal supremacy and infallibility proclaimed at the First Vatican Council in 1870. While orthodox in faith and traditional in liturgy and worship, the Old Catholic Church has a more liberal theological anthropology.

The Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht are Member Churches of the World Council of Churches.  

While the Old Catholic Confederation acknowledges the Archbishop of Utrecht as the Primate of the Old Catholic Church and the Successor of St. Willibrord, the Old Catholic Church in the United States is neither a Member Church of the Union of Utrecht nor subject to the authority of the Archbishop of Utrecht.

The Old Catholic Church in the United States is the National Church of the Old Catholic Confederation, with its own American Old-Catholic religious identity and governed by its own Synod of Bishops under the leadership of the Primate of the Old Catholic Confederation.

His Grace, The Most Rev. Bernd Wallet

Primate of the Old Catholic Church

and the Union of Utrecht

Metropolitan-Archbishop of Utrecht

Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands

Archbishop Dr. Joris Vercammen (Retired) and the Old Catholic Bishops of the Union of Utrecht meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican.