Petrus Codde

Petrus Codde (Amsterdam, 27 November 1648 - Utrecht, 18 December 1710) was a Dutch Roman Catholic bishop and theologian. He was vicar apostolic to the Dutch Mission from 1688 to 1702.

Life

Petrus Codde studied in Leuven, taught by the Oratorians, and was made a priest in 1672. In 1688 he was named apostolic vicar, although the Jesuits suspected and accused him of Jansenist sympathies. He had to justify himself to Rome against these accusations in 1694 and (after being charged with them a second time) 1697. On the second occasion he went to Rome in person, but his "apologia" did not satisfy his critics and he was finally suspended as vicar apostolic in 1702 by pope Clement XI (with his definitive discharge from the post coming in 1704. The facts of this case broke the delicate balance between anti-Jansenist and more moderate clergy in the Dutch Republic, and the dispute finally led to the Utrecht schism and the rise of the Old Catholic Church in 1723.

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Succession box
title= Vicar Apostolic
to the Dutch Mission
years= 1688-1702
before= Johannes van Neercassel
after= Theodorus de Kock