- See the article on Ultrajectinism for a more detailed description of historical and theological events.
The
Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands is the mother church of 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, especially
Jesuit, critics tended to call it the "
Jansenist Church of Holland".