Polish National Catholic Church
church, United States
Quick Facts
- Date:
- c. 1896 - present
- Headquarters:
- Scranton
Polish National Catholic Church, independent Catholic church that arose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries among Polish immigrants in the United States who left the Roman Catholic Church. From 1907 until 2003 it was a member of the Union of Utrecht and in full communion of the Old Catholic churches; in 2006 it entered a limited communion agreement with Rome. Headquarters and a seminary are in Scranton, Pa., U.S. Polish immigrants were unhappy with the Roman Catholic Church in the United States for several reasons, including various internal disputes and dissatisfaction with priests, the absence of a bishop ...(100 of 553 words)