HRVATSKA STAROKATOLIČKA CRKVA U SRBIJI I VOJVODINI OD 1926. DO 1944.
CROATIAN OLD CATHOLIC CHURCH IN SERBIA AND VOJVODINA FROM 1926 TO 1944

Summary/Abstract: The Old Catholic Church is a group of national autonomous churches gathered in the Utrecht Union, led by the Archbishop of Utrecht; roots of Old Catholicism lie in the Netherlands, when following the Reformation, in a midst of a church controversy in the 18th century, a group of Dutch Catholics of Jansenist orientation succeeded in appointing Cornelius van Steenoven as bishop of Utrecht, which caused a split with Rome. Jansenism was a church movement based on the interpretation of teachings of St. Augustine given by Bishop Cornelius Jansen; it originated in the 18th century and was theologically close to Calvinism. The movement was influential in France, Italy (Tuscany), Belgium, and the Netherlands. The Croatian Old Catholic Church in Serbia and Vojvodina managed to establish, in a short period of time (1926-1941) and with only a few priests, a dozen church communities that had an active church life.

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