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The Liberal Catholic Church is a form of Christianity open to theosophical ideas.
Church background
The founding bishop of The Liberal Catholic Church was James I. Wedgwood of the Wedgwood China family, former priest in The Anglican Church, who became a theosophist and was ordained as a priest in the Old Catholic Church on July 22, 1913 by Arnold Harris Mathew. Archbishop Mathew was a resigned Roman Catholic priest who had been consecrated by Archbishop Gerardus Gul of Utrecht on April 28, 1908, and appointed as the first Old Catholic Bishop in England. Thus the Liberal Catholic Church claims to trace its apostolic succession going back to Rome. In the end Mathew came to cease all ties with the Utrecht Union of Churches, to vow allegiance once more to the Roman Catholic Church and to advise those of his flock who were theosophists to resign membership of the Theosophical Society Adyar. This advice was not taken seriously by many of the church's members. Wedgwood was consecrated to the episcopate on February 13, 1916 by Bishop Frederick Samuel Willoughby (who had been consecrated by Bishop Matthew), and started the organization that would later become the Liberal Catholic Church, of which Wedgwood became the first Presiding Bishop. Bishop Wedgwood published articles within the Theosophical Society on ceremonial work. These interested Charles Webster Leadbeater, an alleged clairvoyant and Anglican priest who was consecrated as a Liberal Catholic bishop in 1916. C. W. Leadbeater became the 2nd Presiding Bishop.
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The Liberal Catholic Church - Official site. Came into existence as the result of a re-organization in 1915-1916 of the Old Catholic movement in Great Britain. Requires acceptance of the principles of Theosophy as well as those of Catholic Christianity. Different church body than the Liberal Catholic Church International.
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Church of St. Francis - LCC parish in Villa Park, Illinois. Schedule, map and directions, links.
Meta Description: [ Site for the Chicago area Church --- The Liberal Catholic Church combines Catholic forms of worship, stately ritual, deep mysticism, and witness to the reality of sacramental grace - with the widest measure of intellectual liberty and respect for the individual conscience. ]
Den Frie Universelle Kirke i Danmark - The Liberal Catholic Church in Denmark. Information on the Church and its beliefs, in Danish and English.
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St. Raphael's Liberal Catholic Church - LCC parish in Berkeley, California. Schedule and location of services, early history of the Liberal Catholic Church, links.
The Liberal Catholic - Tri-annual magazine of the Liberal Catholic Church. Full text online. Information on subscriptions and submissions.
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The Liberal Catholic Church, Province of the USA - Official web site. The LCC offers mystical, esoteric Christianity with valid Apostolic Succession and the ancient Mass in the vernacular.
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