Gualtherus Michael van Nieuwenhuizen

Gualtherus Michael van Nieuwenhuizen († April 14, 1797 ) was the fifth Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht . His last name is also listed as van Nieuwenhuysen .

Live and act

He was elected Archbishop of Utrecht by the Chapter on November 19, 1767 and consecrated Bishop on February 7, 1768 by Johannes van Stiphout , Bishop of Haarlem .

A curious incident from this period can be found in the files of the Archbishop's Archives in Utrecht. In 1771 an alleged pastoral letter circulated from his predecessor Petrus Johannes Meindaerts concerning the beatification process of Juan de Palafox . This letter was dated December 15, 1770 - Meindaerts had died in 1767. So van Nieuwenhuizen and the bishops Bijeveld von Deventer and van Stiphout von Haarlem, together with a Mijnheer Meganck, had to publicize the forged pastoral letter and also to Popes Clement XIV and Pius VI. declare false to the opposite. A lengthy correspondence with the Roman Curia ensued about this , but it was never conducted directly and lasted until 1776.

literature

• John Mason Neale : A History of the So-Called Jansenist Church of Holland. John Henry and James Parker, Oxford 1858.
• Roelof Bennink Janssonius : Divorce of the Oud-Roomschkatholieke Kerk in Nederland: Bydrage tot de kennis van den tegenwoordigen strijd in de Roomschkatholieke Kerk. MJ Visser, 's Gravenhaage 1870.
• 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 and Amsterdam 2003.

predecessor	Office	successor
Petrus Johannes Meindaerts	Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht 1768–1797	Johannes Jacobus van Rhijn