Home › J › Januarius (ST the French clergy still)

Januarius (ST the French clergy still)

ST. the French clergy still hold the principles of Jansenius. While Jansenism remained in France a theological school, it became in the Netherlands an independent Church. In 1704, Codde, the vicarapostolic of the archbishopric of Utrecht, was deposed by the Pope for holding Jansenistic views; but the chapter refused to acknowledge the validity of this deposition, and in 1723 they chose an archbishop of their own. Since that time they have had an archbishop at Utrecht, and bishops at Haarlem and Deventer. These Jansenists call themselves by preference the disciples of St. Augustine.