Gerardus Gul (27 October 1847 – 9 February 1920) served as the seventeenth
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Medieval diocese from 695 to 1580
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from 1892 to 1920. He is known for his role in assisting the persons who would later found the
Polish National Catholic Church in the United States, as well as for consecrating
Arnold Harris Mathew, the founder and first bishop of the
Old Catholic Church
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in Great Britain.
Early ministry
Before serving as
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Medieval diocese from 695 to 1580
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, Gul graduated from the Old Catholic seminary at
Amersfoort
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in 1870 and subsequently served as a parish priest at Ss. John & Willibrord in
Amsterdam
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, St. Mary Magdalene in
Zaandam
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, and at St. James in
Utrecht
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. In 1886, he became a pastor in Hilversum.
Archbishop of Utrecht
Following the death of
Johannes Heykamp
Johannes Heykamp (Johannes Heijkamp) served as the sixteenth Archbishop of Utrecht from 1875 to 1892. A learned theologian, Heykamp is most remembered for summoning the conference that led to the Declaration of Utrecht.
Early Ministry
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Medieval diocese from 695 to 1580
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, on 8 January 1892, Gul was consecrated
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on 11 May 1892 by Bishop Gaspardus Johannes Rinkel of Haarlem, Bishop Cornelius Diependaal of Deventer, and Bishop
Joseph Hubert Reinkens
Joseph Hubert Reinkens (March 1, 1821 – January 4, 1896) was the first Germany, German Old Catholic Church, Old Catholic bishop.
Biography
He was born at Burtscheid (now part of Aachen) in the Rhine Province, the son of a gardener. In 1836, on ...
of Bonn.
Polish National Catholic Church
On 21 November 1897, Gul assisted
Eduard Herzog of the
Swiss Christian Catholic Church and Theodor Weber of the
Old Catholic Church of Germany with the consecration of Antonius Stanislas Kozłowski, who was elected by a number of Polish congregations in
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that were dissatisfied with the control exercised over their church properties by mostly-Irish Roman Catholic bishops. These churches would later organize into the
Polish National Catholic Church.
On 29 September 1907, at Utrecht, Gul consecrated
Franciszek Hodur
Bishop Franciszek "Francis" Hodur (1 April 1866 – 16 February 1953) was the Entrepreneur, founder and first Primate (bishop), Prime Bishop of the Polish National Catholic Church (PNCC). Ordained by the Roman Catholic church in 1893, Hodur served ...
, from
Scranton
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Pennsylvania
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Polish National Catholic Church, assisted by Johannes Jacobus van Thiel, Bishop of
Haarlem, and Nicholas B. P. Spit, Bishop of
Deventer.
On 5 October 1909, Gul consecrated
Jan Maria Michał Kowalski the first ''
Minister Generalis'' (Minister General) of the Order of the
Mariavites.
Consecration of Arnold Harris Mathew
In 1908, the
Union of Utrecht
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approved the establishment of a mission in Great Britain, and on 28 April 1908 Gul consecrated
Arnold Harris Mathew at St. Gertrude's Cathedral in Utrecht for the purpose of establishing the
Old Catholic Church
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in the
United Kingdom
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19th-century archbishops
1920 deaths
1847 births
Dutch Old Catholic bishops
People from Bergen, North Holland
20th-century archbishops
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