St. Gertrude's Cathedral (
Dutch
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: ''Sint-Gertrudiskathedraal'') in
Utrecht
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, the
Netherlands
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, is the seat of the
Archbishop of Utrecht and the mother church of the
Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands
The Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands (), sometimes Jansenist Church of Holland, is an Old Catholic jurisdiction originating from the Archdiocese of Utrecht (695–1580). The Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands is the mother church of t ...
(and of the wider
Old Catholic Communion).
It is located at Willemsplantsoen, at the edge of the city centre. The current church building was constructed between 1912 and 1914, and was designed by E.G. Wentinck (
nl) in
Neo-Romanesque
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style, echoing
St. Mary's Church St. Mary's Church, St. Mary the Virgin's Church, St. Mary Church, Saint Mary Church, or other variations on the name, is a commonly used name for specific churches of various Christian denominations.
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, which formerly stood on the , very close by.
In the altar there are more than 1700
relics
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in hundreds of containers. Underneath these relics there is supposed to be a piece of a
rib
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of
St. Willibrord.
[Anique de Kruijf, ''Miraculeus bewaard'' (Zutphen, 2011)]
St. Gertrude's Chapel
The predecessor to the current building, called St. Gertrude's Chapel (Dutch: ''Gertrudiskapel''), has been preserved, and is attached to the current cathedral. It was built in 1634 within a mediaeval house as a
clandestine church
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for the members of the Roman Catholic parish of the
Geertekerk (
nl) (the original St. Gertrude's Church, now in the possession of the
Remonstrants
The Remonstrants (or the Remonstrant Brotherhood) is a Protestant movement that split from the Dutch Reformed Church in the early 17th century. The early Remonstrants supported Jacobus Arminius, and after his death, continued to maintain his or ...
).
See also
*
Old Catholic Church
The terms Old Catholic Church, Old Catholics, Old-Catholic churches, or Old Catholic movement, designate "any of the groups of Western Christians who believe themselves to maintain in complete loyalty the doctrine and traditions of the undiv ...
*
Union of Utrecht (Old Catholic)
The Union of Utrecht of the Old Catholic Churches, most commonly referred to by the short form Union of Utrecht (UU), is a federation of Old Catholic churches, nationally organized from schisms which rejected Roman Catholic doctrines of the Fir ...
References
External links
Website of St. Gertrude's Cathedral and the Old Catholic parish of Utrecht "In de Driehoek"(Dutch)
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Old Catholic church buildings
Churches in Utrecht (city)
Cathedrals in the Netherlands
Churches completed in 1914
Catholicism in the Netherlands
Catholic cathedrals in Europe
20th-century churches in the Netherlands