The Old Catholic Church in Europe or OCCE is a traditionalist Church in the Old Catholic/Independent Catholic tradition, based in the United Kingdom. The denomination changed its name to The National Catholic Apostolic Church United Kingdom or NCACUK on the 1st August 2009. The OCCE/NCACUK is a Eucharistic community in that it has at its core the sacrament of the Eucharist.

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  • The Old Catholic Church in Europe or OCCE is a traditionalist Church in the Old Catholic/Independent Catholic tradition, based in the United Kingdom. The denomination changed its name to The National Catholic Apostolic Church United Kingdom or NCACUK on the 1st August 2009. The OCCE/NCACUK is a Eucharistic community in that it has at its core the sacrament of the Eucharist. Due to the dispersed state of the clergy and laity that the church comprises throughout the United Kingdom, the church sees its self as "a family of believers" and "a fellowship of persons living in charity and the love of Christ". Former Bishop-Metropolitan, Robert McBride attempted to build up and create a stable and vibrant Old Catholic jurisdiction in Europe that not only survives but has a leadership role in the years to come for those that wish to accept leadership from an orthodox Old Catholic jurisdiction. The success of the Bishop-Metropolitan will be assessed over time. The new Bishop-Metropolitan, Dennis Beevers assumed leadership of this profession of faith in March 2008 on the retirement of Bishop-Metropolitan Robert. The OCCE/NCACUK sees itself as a Catholic church of the Western tradition and follows the Latin rite. The OCCE/NCACUK is also a recognised church enjoying fellowship with other ecclesial bodies internationally through international ecumenical bodies and is related through Apostolic Succession to the Catholic churches of the East and West. The Roman Catholic Church has issued no pronouncement on the validity or the efficacy or not of the OCCE/NCACUK Holy Orders. The Apostolic Succession of this Church is both Old Catholic via Arnold Harris Mathew and Independent Catholic via Carlos Duarte Costa and therefore historically traces its lineage back to Roman Catholic Bishops. Roman Catholic commentators and the 1983 Code of Canon Law have written that sacraments administered by Old Catholics are sacramentally valid and a Roman Catholic may fulfill his Holy Day of Obligation by attending Mass celebrated by an Old Catholic priest if unable to attend a Roman Catholic Mass. However, these statements have never named or specified any particular Old Catholic denomination.
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  • The Rt. Revd. Dennis Beevers CSJV Bishop Metropolitan 13th March 2008 - To date
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  • The Most Rev. Robert Matthew Gubala. D.D., SCR. Bishop of Rhode Island. Old Catholic Church of the United States.
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  • The Rt. Rev'd Robert McBride BA (Hons), OSP. Consecrated July 16th 2000. Bishop of Mercia and The Marches
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  • Bishop Metropolitan 2000-2008
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  • The Old Catholic Church in Europe or OCCE is a traditionalist Church in the Old Catholic/Independent Catholic tradition, based in the United Kingdom. The denomination changed its name to The National Catholic Apostolic Church United Kingdom or NCACUK on the 1st August 2009. The OCCE/NCACUK is a Eucharistic community in that it has at its core the sacrament of the Eucharist.
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  • Old Catholic Church in Europe
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