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  1. One of various breakaway groups from Roman
  2. Catholicism - including those in Holland
  3. (such as the Church of Utrecht, who separated
  4. from Rome 1724 after accusations of
  5. Jansenism) and groups in Austria,
  6. Czechoslovakia, Germany, and Switzerland -
  7. who rejected the proclamation of papal
  8. infallibility of 1870. Old Catholic clergy
  9. are not celibate. The Old Catholic Church
  10. entered full communion with the Church of
  11. England 1931. Anglican and Old Catholic
  12. bishops have joined in the consecration of
  13. new bishops so that their consecration can be
  14. traced back to the time of an undivided
  15. church.
  16.