ALL meanings of old catholic
old cath·o·lic
O o - noun old catholic a member of any of several European churches professing to be truly Catholic but rejecting certain modern Roman Catholic doctrines, dogmas, and practices, especially the dogma of papal infallibility. 1
- noun old catholic a member of any of several minor churches, especially in the U.S., differing from the Roman Catholic Church chiefly in their rejection of the ecclesiastical authority of the Roman Catholic hierarchy. 1
- adjective old catholic of or relating to several small national Churches which have broken away from the Roman Catholic Church on matters of doctrine 0
- noun old catholic a member of one of these Churches 0
- noun old catholic a member of any of a number of nationalist churches rejecting various Roman Catholic tenets (esp. papal supremacy and papal infallibility) officially promulgated in relatively recent times: the churches were organized mainly in the late 19th cent. 0