Word: willibrord
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This sect is headed in the U.S. by Archbishop W. H. Francis, with headquarters in Chicago. It traces its episcopal lineage to the Ancient Church of the Netherlands, founded in the Seventh Century by a Briton, Saint Willibrord. Its modern strength dates from 1870, when there acceded to it many Roman Catholic bishops who could not agree to the doctrine of papal infallibility promulgated and accepted by the Vatican Council just interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War. Old Catholics insist on the peerage of the bishops, and further object to the stringently monarchial system of the Roman Catholic Church...
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