Old Catholic Church Croatia
The Croatian Old Catholic Church ( Hrvatska starokatolička crkva ) was founded after the First World War by nationally minded Catholics in Croatia , who elected Marko Kalogjerá as their bishop and asked to join the Union of Old Catholic Churches in Utrecht . At the end of 1923, Adalbert Schindelar , the first bishop of the Old Catholic Church in Austria , received a delegation and signed a declaration that this church was part of the state-recognized Old Catholic Church of Austria. As a result, the Croatian diocese received state recognition as an Old Catholic Church in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia .
After Kalogjerá canceled church marriages for payment , the International Bishops' Conference (IBK) of the Union of Utrecht excluded him from their ranks. As a result, there was a split into a minority, which Bishop Kalogjerá succeeded, and a majority, which remained in unity with the Union of Utrecht. During the Second World War , the then around one hundred Old Catholic parishes were almost completely wiped out by the alliance of the Roman Catholic clergy and the Ustasha state of Ante Pavelić .
Today there are parishes in Šaptinovci , Dubrave Donje ( Bosnia-Herzegovina ) and in Zagreb ; the Zagreb community has two church buildings and an Old Catholic cemetery from the 1930s. In September 2010 there were four priests and one deacon serving.
The Old Catholic Church of Croatia is under the jurisdiction of a delegate from the IBK. The Austrian Bishop Johannes Okoro has been active in this role since November 2011 , previously this role was performed by Former Bishop Bernhard Heitz .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Blankenstein-Halama: On the 80th anniversary of the ordination of the 1st Old Catholic Bishop in Austria, Bishop Adalbert Schindelar (September 1, 1925) ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 176 kB), accessed on March 6, 2011.
- ^ Christian wing: The Union of Utrecht and the history of its churches. Verlag Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2006, ISBN 3-8334-6069-5 , pp. 56-57.
- ^ Georg Spindler: New departure. Report from September 2010 , accessed March 12, 2011.
- ^ Georg Spindler: Farewell and a New Beginning, Old Catholics in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina , accessed on April 17, 2012.
- ↑ Georg Spindler: Bishop, please say “Hvaljen Isus!”. Synod of the Croatian Old Catholics. In: Christians Today. Old Catholic magazine for Christians today. Issue 52 (2008), pp. 271-272.
