Talk:Petrus Codde

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I've removed the following content from the main page, since it doesn't seem relevant to Codde, but I'm leaving it here in case anyone wants to salvage it for use elsewhere:

"Gerard Potkamp was appointed as Codde's replacement, but Potkamp and those that followed were rejected by some of the clergy, to whom the States-General lent their support. The conflict lasted a long time, during which the episcopal functions were not fulfilled. In 1723 the Chapter of Utrecht, in this case a group of seven or eight priests who assumed the name and quality in order to put an end to the situation, elected on their own authority the vicar general, Cornelius Steenhoven, as archbishop of Utrecht. This election was not canonical, and was not approved by the pope. Bishop emeritus Paul-Werner Scheele and Bishop emeritus Fritz-René Müller wrote, in the preface to the International Roman Catholic–Old Catholic Dialogue Commission's report The Church and Ecclesial Communion, that these 'differences regarding the relationship of the local church and papal primacy' were one of the 'major grounds for the separation' of the churches. But the 'Old Catholic churches have however never questioned the special position of the pope in the church as a whole,' according to Scheele and Müller." — Moriwen (talk) 20:49, 24 February 2024 (UTC)