Diocese of Haarlem (Old Catholic)

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The Diocese of Haarlem is one of three dioceses of the Old Catholic Church in the Netherlands . As the only suffragan of the Utrecht Arch Chair , it is occupied by a bishop, while the formally still existing Diocese of Deventer is permanently vacant.

Old Catholic Cathedral of St. Anne and Mary in Haarlem

history

In 1559, Pope Paul IV established five new bishoprics in the Netherlands on the occasion of the elevation of the diocese of Utrecht to an archdiocese , including the diocese of Haarlem as the Utrecht suffragan diocese . This happened at the suggestion of Philip II. As early as 1578 the diocese went under with the reformation that took hold.

The first bishop of Haarlem was Nicolaas van Nieuwland , 1561–1569. Godfried van Mierlo became vicar general in 1569 and was ordained bishop in 1571. After the Protestants came to power in Haarlem in 1578 and Catholic worship was banned, Bishop Godfried van Mierlo had to flee the city. Nominally, however, the diocese continued to exist until the suspension of the Archbishop Vicar Petrus Codde in 1702. When the Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands broke away from Rome in 1723, the episcopal see of Haarlem was vacant .

During the Barchman Wuytiers episcopate in 1726 it was decided to repopulate the bishopric and the Haarlem chapter was asked to elect a bishop within three months. However, this chapter had already taken the side of the Catholics loyal to Rome and let the deadline pass, so that in 1727 a pastor from Amsterdam, Theodorus Doncker , was elected bishop by the chapter of Utrecht together with some clergy from Haarlem. However, he died in 1731 without receiving episcopal ordination. Archbishop Meindaerts appointed Hieronymus de Bock Bishop of Haarlem on June 26, 1742 ; he was consecrated on September 2 of the same year. The Pope responded with an excommunication . After de Bock's death in 1744, Johannes van Stiphout was elected and consecrated in 1745 ; Stiphout died in 1777. He was followed by Adrianus Johannes Broekman (1778–1800). Its successor was 1801-1810 Johannes Nieuwenhuis . The state authorities repeatedly refused permission to appoint a successor to Nieuwenhuis. Finally, in 1815, Johannes Bon was elected and consecrated in 1819. However, he was not recognized by the government as Bishop of Haarlem until 1825. After Bon's death in 1841, the government forbade the election of a successor. Eventually Archbishop van Santen appointed Henricus van Buul , who was consecrated in 1843. The government was very dissatisfied. After repeated treatment of this matter by parliament, the promise of a pension for the bishop was made in 1847, but without recognition. This recognition did not take place until 1853.

Van Buul died in 1862. A serious conflict with Archbishop Henricus Loos arose because the chapter of Haarlem had been on the side of the Catholics loyal to Rome since the early 18th century and had not nominated any bishop candidates for the episcopal see of Haarlem. So these were appointed by the Metropolitan (Archbishop). With the restoration of the hierarchy in 1853, the Pope canceled the old Haarlem chapter without objection. The chapter could no longer be accused of defaulting on the nomination of candidates. The Haarlem clergy found that the right to be appointed by the archbishop was no longer valid and wanted to elect a successor to Van Buul. The number of priests was too small for the foundation of a new chapter, so the possibility of designation by the entire clergy was more likely given. In 1863 the clergy elected Lambertus de Jong ; Loos refused to recognize him. De Jong then convened the Haarlem clergy on October 3, 1866, together with the Archbishop and the Bishop of Deventer . The archbishop stayed away from the meeting and the clergy drew on the election of a vicar general and a bishop.

De Jong died in 1867. Casparus Johannes Rinkel was elected to succeed him. Loos refused to consecrate him. Rinkel was only consecrated in 1873 after the death of Loos by the Bishop of Deventer, after Utrecht had given up its resistance to this electoral process, which has been the rule ever since. Jacobus Johannes van Thiel succeeded Rinkel in 1906, after his death in 1912 Nicolaas Prins became the new bishop. From 1916 on Henricus Theodorus Johannes van Vlijmen held the bishopric, 1945–1967 Jacob van der Oord .

Bishops

see → List of the Old Catholic Bishops of Haarlem

present

The current Bishop of Haarlem has been Dick Schoon since 2008 . The cathedral church has been St. Anna and Maria in Haarlem since 1938 .

literature

  • Henricus Loos : Schets eener divorceis van de Roomsch-Katholijke oud-bisschoppelijke klerezy in Nederland. Utrecht 1853
  • John Mason Neale : A History of the So-Called Jansenist Church of Holland. John Henry and James Parker, Oxford 1858.
  • Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands, Utrecht Archives (Ed.): Gallicanism And Ultramontanism In Catholic Europe In The 18th Century. Foreign Correspondence And Other Documents From The Archive Of The Jansenist Archbishops Of Utrecht, 1723-1808 on microfiche. Utrecht / Amsterdam 2003.

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