Old Catholic

English

Adjective

Old Catholic (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to a group of churches that split from the Roman Catholic Church over the dogma of papal infallibility, which they did not agree with.

Synonyms

• Christian Catholic

Translations

pertaining to a group of churches that split from the Roman Catholic Church

• Czech: starokatolický
• Dutch: oudkatholiek
• French: vieux-catholique (fr)
• Galician: católico antigo
• German: altkatholisch (de), christkatholisch (de) (Switzerland)
• Italian: veterocattolico, vetero-cattolico
• Polish: starokatolicki
• Spanish: católico antiguo
• Swedish: gammalkatolsk

Noun

Old Catholic (plural Old Catholics)

1. A member of an Old Catholic church.

Further reading

• Old Catholics in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)