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====Lutheran Church of Dericania==== | ====Lutheran Church of Dericania==== | ||
====Independent Catholic Association of Levantia==== | ====Independent Catholic Association of Levantia==== | ||
Self-identified independent Catholic groups have a long history in modern [[Levantia]]. Due to the widespread prevalence and social dominance of the [[Catholic Church]] throughout the [[Levantine Union]], many groups who have otherwise separated from the authority of the [[Pope]] have nonetheless retained a self-proclaimed "Catholic" identity. The largest concentration of these groups are "{{wp|Old Catholic Church|old Catholic}}" in nature, that is, individual communities and churches who separated from the Catholic Church over the issue of {{wp|Papal infallibility}} as defined at the {{wp|First Vatican Council}}. | Self-identified independent Catholic groups have a long history in modern [[Levantia]]. Due to the widespread prevalence and social dominance of the [[Catholic Church]] throughout the [[Levantine Union]], many groups who have otherwise separated from the authority of the [[Pope]] have nonetheless retained a self-proclaimed "Catholic" identity. The largest concentration of these groups are "{{wp|Old Catholic Church|old Catholic}}" in nature, that is, individual communities and churches who separated from the Catholic Church over the issue of {{wp|Papal infallibility}} as defined at the {{wp|First Vatican Council}}. The second largest group are the so-called "national" churches which formed throughout Levantia in the 19th century as part of the broader nationalist and Romantic movement. The most prominent of these was the National Catholic Church of the Vandarch, which achieved legal recognition as a minority religion in [[Hollona and Diorisia]] in [[1883]] and espoused national supremacy over union with the [[Pope]] and achieved as much as ten percent of the population as members by [[1900]], though declining thereafter. The "Vandarch church", as a legally recognized organization, held pride of place and prestige within independent Catholic circles, with the national Bishop of Mesellianum assuming an unofficial role as spokesman for independent Catholics. These national groups largely maintained the same theology and {{wp|ecclesiology}} as the Catholic Church, with concerns for political independence driving their foundation. Finally, a smaller number of self-identified "old" Catholic communities existed in rural parts of eastern [[Rhotia]], with most scholars describing their position as {{wp|Jansenist}}. | ||
As the number of independent Catholic groups increased at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, calls for unity outside of that with [[Papal State|Urceopolis]] were echoed throughout many of these groups. The National Catholic Church of the Vandarch took the lead on attempting to organize these efforts. In [[1924]], four different Old Catholic Churches and six various independent and national Churches met at the Synod of Mesellianum in [[Hollona and Diorisia]] with the intent of forming a loose association between the groups, with common ordination and mutually recognized {{wp|Apostolic succession}}. These groups founded the Independent Catholic Association effective 1 January 1925, and organization which changed its name to the Independent Catholic Association of Levantia in [[1935]] during the [[Second Great War]]. | |||
====Methodist Church of Corcra==== | ====Methodist Church of Corcra==== | ||