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