The Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands; Dutch: Oud-Katholieke Kerk van Nederland, is the mother church related to the Old Catholic Churches. It is sometimes called the Ancient Catholic Church, the Church of Utrecht (Ultrajectine Church) or the Dutch Roman Catholic Church of the Old Episcopal Order. In the past, Roman Catholic and Jesuit critics tended to call it the "Jansenist Church of Holland".
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