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German Catholics

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
German Catholics religious groups founded in 1844 by dissidents from the Roman Catholic Church. They were led by two excommunicated priests, Johann Czerski of Schneidemühl, Posen, and Johann Ronge of Breslau. The church, organized by a council in Leipzig in 1845 under the name of Deutsche-katholische Kirche, was attractive to Roman Catholics because it retained the traditional practices of baptism and communion. In keeping with the rationalism and nationalism of the period, it rejected papal primacy, celibacy, indulgences, devotion to saints, veneration of relics, and all but the above-mentioned... Read more
Old Catholics
Christian denomination established by German Catholics who separated themselves from the Roman...approximately 3 million adherents, and the German Old Catholics, with some 24,000 members. The German church began ordaining women in 1996... Read more
Differences Between Catholics and Protestants
Differences Between Catholics and Protestants Dimensions...at this time were poor German and Irish Catholics who settled in urban centers...Protestants and newly arrived Catholics the religious differences...political leader for American Catholics, and in no way was historical...situation. ... Read more

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