The Catholic Church in the Netherlands () is part of the worldwide

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under the spiritual leadership of the

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. Its

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is the Metropolitan Archbishop of Utrecht, since 2008 Willem Jacobus Eijk. In 2015

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was the single largest religion of the

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, forming some 23% of the Dutch people, based on in-depth interviewing, down from 40% in the 1960s. Although the number of Catholics in the Netherlands has decreased in recent decades, the Catholic Church remains today the largest religious group in the Netherlands. Once known as a

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country, Catholicism surpassed Protestantism after the

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, and in 2012 the Netherlands was only 10%

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, down from 60% in the early 20th century, which is primarily due to rising lack of

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starting two decades earlier than in Dutch Catholicism. In 2021, there were an estimated 3.7 million in the Netherlands, 21.7% of the population, down from more than 40% in the 1970s. The Catholic Church in the Netherlands has suffered an official membership loss of 650,000 members between 2003 (4,532,000 pers. / 27.9% overall population) and 2015 (3,882,000 pers. / 22.9% overall population). The number of people registered as Catholic in the Netherlands continues to decrease, roughly by half a percent annually.

North Brabant North Brabant ( ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, Dutch Brabant or Hollandic Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands. It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north, Limburg to the east, Zeeland to ...

and Limburg have been historically the most Catholic parts of the Netherlands, and Catholicism and some of its traditions now form a

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rather than a religious identity for people there. The majority of the Catholic population is now largely irreligious in practice, in line with the rest of the Dutch population. Research among self-identified Catholics in the Netherlands in 2007 showed that 27% could be regarded as

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; 55% as ietsist,

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, or agnostic; and 17% as

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.God in Nederland' (1996-2006), by Ronald Meester, G. Dekker, In 2015, 13% of self-identified Dutch Catholics believed in the existence of heaven; 17% in a personal God; and fewer than half believe that Jesus was the Son of God or sent by God. In December 2011, a report was published by Wim Deetman, a former Dutch Minister of Education, detailing

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within the Catholic Church in the Netherlands: 1,800 instances of abuse "by clergy or volunteers within Dutch Catholic dioceses" were reported to have occurred since 1945. Church attendance by Catholics has decreased in recent decades to 98,600 or 2.7% of Dutch Catholics in a regular weekend of May 2022.

History

Medieval period

From the 4th to the 6th century AD The Great Migration took place, in which the small Celtic-Germanic-Roman tribes in the Low Countries were gradually supplanted by three major Germanic tribes: the

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, the

Frisians The Frisians () are an ethnic group indigenous to the German Bight, coastal regions of the Netherlands, north-western Germany and southern Denmark. They inhabit an area known as Frisia and are concentrated in the Dutch provinces of Friesland an ...

and

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. The most powerful of these were the Franks (who, at the time, resided between the Rhine and the Somme) and they converted to Catholic Christianity, during the reign of King

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around 500 AD. Most of the region thus fell under the

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and then the

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until the end of the 9th century. From the center of the Diocese of Tongeren-Maastricht-Liège, successively the cities of

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and

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, this part of the Low Countries was probably Christianized. According to tradition, the first

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of Maastricht, Servatius, was buried in this city in 384, though only from Bishop Domitianus (ca. 535) is it established that he resided in Maastricht. The coastal Frisian Kingdom remained Germanic pagan but were eventually conquered by

Charles Martel Charles Martel (; – 22 October 741), ''Martel'' being a sobriquet in Old French for "The Hammer", was a Franks, Frankish political and military leader who, as Duke and Prince of the Franks and Mayor of the Palace, was the de facto ruler of ...

and incorporated into the Catholic Frankish Kingdom after the Battle of the Boarn in 734. The Northern parts of the Netherlands were converted as part of the

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as Catholic Christians from the various kingdoms of

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moved to the Continent, such as St. Willibrord, the Apostle of the Frisians and St.

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, who was martyred in Friesland. Both were active in the eighth century, having great impact on the conversion of the country. The areas in the Low Countries which would eventually become part of the modern

were part of

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and then

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, before eventually becoming part of the

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as part of the

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. Originally under the

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by the end of the 15th century it was part of the

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as part of a vast Catholic Habsburg Empire dominated by the

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Since the rise of Calvinism

Since the

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the Catholics were systematically and officially discriminated against by the Protestant government until the second half of the 20th century, which had a major influence on the economical and cultural development of the southern part of the Netherlands. Dutch Catholics were "reduced to the rank of second-class citizens" and were barred from all civil service positions; Catholics were not only barred from administrative posts such as that of a mayor, but they were also banned from minor ones such as lantern lighter and turf carrier. The church itself also faced harassment, and between 1703 and 1727 the papal

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was not allowed to enter the territory of the Netherlands. Increasingly marginalised, Dutch Catholics became one of the poorest groups in the Dutch society. According to Jan Roegiers, in many Catholic areas "not a single Catholic, aside from the pastor and his assistant, belonged to the intellectual and merchant class". The economic plight of Catholics was largely the result of discrimination by the Protestant majority. From the

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to the 20th century, Dutch Catholics had largely been confined to certain southern areas in the Netherlands where they still tend to form a majority or large minority of the population. However, with modern population shifts and increasing secularization, these areas tend to be less and less predominantly Catholic. Registered Catholics still form a slight majority in the most southern province of the Netherlands, Limburg (refer to the overview by diocese above). After the Dutch Republic banned the Catholic religion in the 1580s the Netherlands became a mission territory under the canonical authority of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith (the so-called

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). The episcopal hierarchy was not restored until 1853, with the reestablishment of the episcopal hierarchy in the Netherlands.

Restoration of Catholic hierarchy

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Catholics formed a separate social pillar, with their own schools, TV and radio broadcasting, hospitals, unions, and

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. They formed a

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with orthodox Protestants, who also felt discriminated against. This pillarization and coalition government was important in emancipating the Catholics from their social exclusion. In the period between 1860 and 1960, Catholic church life and institutions flourished. This period is called "The Rich Roman Life" (Dutch: ''Het Rijke Roomse leven''). During this period, the number of Catholics in the Dutch population grew to approximate parity with Protestants, as in

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, Scotland,

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, and

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Recent Era

At the

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, representatives of the Dutch Church were prominent on the liberal-wing: especially Cardinal Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, who had the Belgian ''periti''

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working under him and also Fr. Johannes Willebrands, who was involved in ecumenism and promoting religious liberty. While on the otherhand, Fr. Sebastiaan Tromp, a Dutchman who worked under Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, was involved in drawing up the original conservative ''schemas'' which were thrown out. Following the Council, Schillebeeckx and Piet Schoonenberg released the ''

Dutch Catechism The Dutch Catechism of 1966 (''De Nieuwe Katechismus, geloofsverkondiging voor volwassenen''; English translation: ''A New Catechism: Catholic Faith for Adults'') was the first post-Vatican II Catholic catechism. It was commissioned and authorized ...

'', which was one of the more radical representations of the " spirit of Vatican II" in Europe. The Bishops' Conference of the Netherlands under Johannes Bluyssen was engaged in a number of controversies with Rome around this time, also, relating to a wide variety of issues from morality, to doctrine, to the liturgy. A cultural divide is still found between the "Catholic" south and the "Protestant" north, but with a total of 1.5 million people and 20% of the industrial production in the Netherlands, the southern "Catholic" area BrabantStad has become one of the major economically important, metropolitan regions of the Netherlands. In the 1980s and 1990s the church became polarized. The conservatives' main organization was Contact Roman Catholics. The liberals' main organization was the Eighth of May Movement (Dutch: "Acht Mei-beweging"), founded because of disputes about the papal visit in 1985; the Movement had a difficult relationship with the bishops, and disbanded in 2003. Currently, Catholicism is still the single largest religion of the Netherlands with around four million registered members, 22.9% of the Dutch population in 2015. In 2006, in the Diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch (in the eastern part of

and in part of

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), only 45,645 residents, mostly people over 65, attended

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, only 2% of the total population in that area. In western North Brabant (the

Diocese of Breda The Diocese of Breda () is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Breda, the the Netherlands, Netherlands. Description Until 1801 this territory was part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Antwerp, a diocese suppressed by the Concordat o ...

), the number of people associating themselves with Catholicism also strongly decreased. Church attendance is even lower in the west with only 1% of the West Brabantian population visiting churches in 2006. A planned visit of

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to the Netherlands was blocked by Cardinal Wim Eijk in 2014, allegedly because of the feared lack of interest for the

among the Dutch public. 92% of Dutch Catholics support

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and 3% oppose it. 95% of Dutch Catholics believe society should accept

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, while 4% believe society should not accept homosexuality.

Child abuse scandal

In December 2011 a report was published by Wim Deetman, a former Dutch minister, detailing widespread child abuse within the Catholic Church in the Netherlands: 1,800 instances of abuse "by clergy or volunteers within Dutch Catholic dioceses" were reported to have occurred since 1945. According to the report "The risk of experiencing unwanted sexual advances was twice as great for minors in institutions as the national average of 9.7%. This finding reveals no significant difference between Catholic institutions and other institutions." In March 2012, however, it was revealed that left out were the cases of 10 children being surgically castrated after reporting being sexually abused to the police. It also emerged that in 1956 former prime minister Victor Marijnen, then chairman of a children's home in

, had covered up the

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of children. According to the ''Telegraph'' newspaper, he "intervened to have prison sentences dropped against several priests convicted of abusing children." The factuality of these claims is unclear, though. The Commission rejected all the claims.

Dioceses

There are seven

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s in the Netherlands: * Metropolitan Archdiocese of Utrecht, St Catherine's Cathedral, Archbishop Wim Eijk (since 2007) **

, St. Anthony of Padua Cathedral, Bishop Johannes Liesen (since 2011) ** Diocese of Groningen-Leeuwarden, St. Joseph Cathedral, Bishop Ron van den Hout (since 2017) ** Diocese of Haarlem-Amsterdam, Cathedral of St Bavo, Bishop Jan Hendriks (since 2020) ** Diocese of Roermond, St. Christopher's Cathedral, Bishop Hendrikus Smeets (since 2018) ** Diocese of Rotterdam, St. Lawrence and St. Elizabeth Cathedral, Bishop Hans van den Hende (since 2011) ** Diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch), St. John's Cathedral, Bishop Gerard de Korte (since 2016) There is also the Military Ordinariate of the Netherlands for the Dutch military and the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Vladimir the Great of Paris is for the Ukrainian Greek Catholic population of the Netherlands. Former dioceses of the Netherlands included: Diocese of Deventer, Diocese of Leeuwarden, Diocese of Maastricht, Diocese of Middelburg, Apostolic Vicariate of Batavia, Apostolic Vicariate of Grave-Nijmegen, Apostolic Vicariate of Limburg, and the Apostolic Vicariate of Ravenstein-Megen.

Demographics

These figures are the latest available as of 2020 from ecclesiastical statistics: According to the church administration, in 2010 two dioceses –

's-Hertogenbosch s-Hertogenbosch (), colloquially known as Den Bosch (), is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Netherlands with a population of 160,783. It is the capital of ...

and Roermond – still had a majority of Catholics in the population. It is notable that SILA (Stichting Interkerkelijke Ledenadministratie) published for these two dioceses a lower number of Catholics in 2005. Based on the SILA-numbers, in the diocese of Hertogenbosch in 2010 the population has no longer a Catholic majority. KASKI (Katholiek Sociaal-Kerkelijk Insituut / Catholic Social-Ecclesiastical Institute) found 23.3% of the population to be nominal Catholic in 2014, based on registration by the Catholic church. These numbers are higher than the numbers of Catholic adherence found by Radboud University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (11.7% Catholic in 2015). These surveys show a disconnect between membership and actual adherence. Especially the Catholic Church often claims that a quarter of the Dutch population is Catholic, pointing to the official statistics, but when questioned, fewer than half that number associate themselves with the Catholic faith. Many people still registered as members of a church are no longer religious or practicing, but for various reasons have not officially renounced their membership, a phenomenon known as 'belonging without believing'. According to the Church's figures, Catholics became a minority in the Diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch in 2014. The number of parishes in the Netherlands has dropped between 2003 and 2014 from 1525 to 760. Many remaining churches have found purposes outside the religious domain, like stores, apartment buildings and museums.

Churches

As well as the cathedrals, notable Catholic churches in the Netherlands also include: * Basilica of Saint Nicholas, Amsterdam * Begijnhof Chapel, Amsterdam * Church of Our Lady, Amsterdam * Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Amsterdam * De Krijtberg, Amsterdam * Mozes en Aäronkerk, Amsterdam *

James the Greater Church The James the Greater Church (Dutch language, Dutch: ''Jacobus de Meerderekerk'') is a Roman Catholic Church (building), church, located on the Pastoor Neujeanstraat 6 in Bocholtz, Netherlands. First mentioned in the 14th century, the current churc ...

, Bocholtz * St Francis Xavier Church, Enkhuizen * St Willibrordus, Hulst * St Joseph's Church, Leiden * Heilige Lodewijkkerk, Leiden * Basilica of Our Lady, Maastricht * Basilica of Saint Servatius, Maastricht * St Peter Canisius Church, Nijmegen * Basilica of St Plechelm, Oldenzaal * Oudenbosch Basilica * Church of St John the Baptist, Pijnacker * St Lambert's Church, Rosmalen * Saint Remigius Church, Simpelveld * Basilica of St Amelberga, Susteren * Gerardus Majellakerk, Tilburg * Heuvelse kerk, Tilburg * Saint Bernard Church, Ubachsberg * Saint Paul's Church, Vaals * Our Lady of the Enclosed Garden, Warfhuizen Monasteries also include: *

Egmond Abbey Egmond Abbey or St. Adalbert's Abbey (, ''Sint-Adelbertabdij'') is a Rule of St. Benedict, Benedictine monastery of the Congregation of the Annunciation, situated in Egmond-Binnen, in the municipality of Bergen, North Holland, Bergen, in the Neth ...

* St. Benedictusberg Abbey * St. Willibrord's Abbey * Carmelite Monastery, Echt * Berne Abbey * Achel Abbey * Koningshoeven Abbey * Lilbosch Abbey

Notable Dutch Catholics

Notable Dutch Catholics throughout history include

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, Ruud Lubbers, Henry of Gorkum, Hadewijch, Cornelius Loos, Jakob Middendorp,

Hieronymus Bosch Hieronymus Bosch (; ; born Jheronimus van Aken ; – 9 August 1516) was a Dutch people, Dutch painter from Duchy of Brabant, Brabant. He is one of the most notable representatives of the Early Netherlandish painting school. His work, gene ...

, Piet de Jong, Jan Harmenszoon Krul, Dries van Agt,

Jan Steen Jan Havickszoon Steen ( – buried 3 February 1679) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, one of the leading genre painters of the 17th century. His works are known for their psychological insight, sense of humour and abundance of colour. Life ...

, Casimir Ubaghs, Maxime Verhagen,

Erasmus Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus ( ; ; 28 October c. 1466 – 12 July 1536), commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic priest and Catholic theology, theologian, educationalist ...

, and Joan Albert Ban.

References

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