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The North American Old Catholic Church (NAOCC) is a community of 22 independent Catholic churches based in the United States and Canada.


History
The North American Old Catholic Church was formed in January 2007 in Louisville, Kentucky, as a community of independent Catholic churches, with Archbishop Michael Seneco being elected as the community's first presiding bishop.[1][2] This United States-based organization traced its history to an 1870 movement in the Netherlands that dissented from the Roman Catholic Church largely over the 1869 First Vatican Council doctrine of papal infallibility,[2][3][4] a dogma of the Catholic Church which states that the pope is preserved from the possibility of error in certain circumstances.[5]
In 2009, the group included twenty Old Catholic churches in the United States,[6] with Washington, D.C., Texas, and Maryland each having two parishes, Florida having three, and the rest located in other states.[4]
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