Old Catholic Church/Talk

The real question of succession and nomenclature is what groups called themselves what and who joined whom. The term "Old Catholic" is, I think, an invention of the German group (the Munich convention, I believe). I can't find anything just off hand on the web to find out what the Utrecht schism called *itself* from the early 18th century until the late 19th century, but I have never in the (admittedly Roman Catholic) material seen a refernce to that group as "Old" until after the Union of Utrecht. There's a book called "Episcopi Vagantes" that would help, but we don't have a copy of it in our little liberal arts college library. --MichaelTinkler

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Well, I got the information I added from: [1], which is a somewhat biased source, though I am unsure of the correctness of its factual statements. We both updated the article at the same time, but I couldn't work out which of us was right, so now we have two articles... -- Simon J Kissane

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hmm. I'll look around and work on it. We don't have either the book I refer to above and I can't find in my database bibliography the book I read published in the mid-80s about Old Catholics in America.