old catholic

1. 1.

   a member of the church formed in the 19th century by German Catholics who refused to accept the infallibility of the Pope

   BroaderChristian

   Part ofOld Catholic Church

Questions about old catholic

What does old catholic mean?

old catholic means "a member of the church formed in the 19th century by German Catholics who refused to accept the infallibility of the Pope".

Is old catholic a common word?

old catholic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.