Reformed Catholic Church

Reformed Catholics was a Independent Catholic denomination founded in New York City, United States, in 1879, by some priests who left the Catholic Church. It was not in communion with the pope in Rome.

Dissident formerly Catholic priests formed a few congregations chiefly in New York.

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  •  This article incorporates text from a publication in the public domain: H. K. Carroll (1914). "Reformed Catholics". In Jackson, Samuel Macauley (ed.). New Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (third ed.). London and New York: Funk and Wagnalls.
  • Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Reformed Catholic Church" . Encyclopedia Americana.
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