Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland

Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland
Classification	Catholic
Theology	Ultrajectine
Governance	Episcopal
Leader	Harald Rein
Associations	International Old Catholic Bishops' Conference
Region	Switzerland
Headquarters	Bern
Branched from	Roman Catholic Church
Congregations	33
Members	13,312^[1]
Ministers	44

Christian Catholic bishop's church, Ss Peter and Paul in Bern

Church with Bernese Alps in the background

The Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland is the Swiss member church of the Union of Utrecht of Old Catholic Churches. The Union of Utrecht was founded by some Jansenists, and expanded with an influx of discontented Roman Catholics following their disappointment with the First Vatican Council (1869-1870). The church is a national Swiss church and recognised (as are the Evangelical Reformed and the Roman Catholic churches) in 11 cantons by the government. Since 1874, the University of Bern has had its own Christian Catholic theological faculty, which is now one part (as the Christian Catholic section) of the Faculty of Theology. The strongest concentration of Christian Catholics lies in the cantons of Solothurn, Aargau, Zurich and Geneva.

In 1841 the Zürich Catholic community planned to build a church to commemorate the 1270s Augustinian abbey church. As the whole community was expelled from the Catholic church, the Augustinerkirche at the Münzplatz became its present parish church. Ferdinand Stadler (1813–1870), an architect born in Zürich, was charged with the construction of a new church building.^[2]

In 2009, Bishop Harald Rein was elected as the head of the church. Prior to this, he served as a parish priest and as vicar general of the church. On September 12, 2009, he was consecrated in Zurich by Archbishop Joris Vercammen of Utrecht.^[3]

References

↑ Bundesamt für Statistik: Religionslandschaft in der Schweiz.
↑ "Augustinerkirche Zürich" (in German). Augustinerkirche Zürich. Archived from the original on 2015-01-21. Retrieved 2015-01-20.
↑ Bischof Harald Rein

The Union of Utrecht of the Old Catholic Churches

Unifying institutions	Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht International Old Catholic Bishops' Conference International Old Catholic Congresses

Member churches	Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands Catholic Diocese of the Old Catholics in Germany Old Catholic Church of Austria Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland Old Catholic Church of the Czech Republic Polish Catholic Church (see below for PNCC based in the United States)

Dependent jurisdictions	Old Catholic Church of Croatia Old Catholic Mission in France Old Catholic Church in Sweden and Denmark

Churches in full communion	Anglican Communion Philippine Independent Church

Churches no longer in communion	Old Catholic Church in Italy Polish National Catholic Church (PNCC; based in the United States)

Religion in Switzerland

Major	Christianity Swiss Reformed Church Roman Catholicism Old Catholic

Minor	Buddhism Hinduism Islam Ahmadiyya Judaism Sikhism

Related	Irreligion in Switzerland Landeskirche Reformation in Switzerland Swiss Brethren

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 153530785 LCCN: n85340681 GND: 213975-3 SUDOC: 077097157 BNF: cb12503135z (data)

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