Reformed Catholic Church
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Reformed Catholics is an 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, and began evangelistic work on a
Holy Spirit is the only teaching power in the church. At its height, the denomination had six churches, eight ministers
, and about 2,000 or 3,000 communicants.
A new Reformed Catholic Church was established in the 1990s. It is currently led by Bishop Christopher Carpenter and has communities across the US.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the New Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge(third ed.). London and New York: Funk and Wagnalls.- Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana.
