Gerardus Gul
| Gerardus Gul | |
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| Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht | |
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| Church | Old Catholic Church |
| Archdiocese | Utrecht |
| In office | 1875-1892 |
| Predecessor | Johannes Heykamp |
| Successor | Franciscus Kenninck |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1870 |
| Consecration | May 11, 1892 by Casparus Johannes Rinkel |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
October 27, 1847 Egmond aan Zee |
| Died | 9 February 1920 (aged 72) Utrecht |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Denomination | Old Catholic |
| Parents | Jan Gul, Angel Tol |
Gerardus Gul (1847-1920) served as the seventeenth Archbishop of Utrecht from 1892 to1920. He is known for his role in assisting the persons who would later found the Polish National Catholic Church in the United States, as well as for consecrating Arnold Harris Mathew, the founder and first bishop of the Old Catholic Church in Great Britain.
Before serving as Archbishop of Utrecht, Gul graduated from the Old Catholic seminary at Amersfoort in 1870 and subsequently served as a parish priest at Ss. John & Willibrord in Amsterdam, St. Mary Magdalene in Zaandam, and at St. James in Utrecht. In 1886 he became pastor in Hilversum.
Following the death of Johannes Heykamp, Archbishop of Utrecht, on January 8, 1892, Gul was consecrated [Old_Catholic_Church_of_the_Netherlands#Old_Catholic_Archbishops_of_Utrecht|Archbishop of Utrecht on May 11, 1892 by Bishop Gaspardus Johannes Rinkel of Haarlem, Bishop Cornelius Diependaal of Deventer, and Bishop Josef Hubert Reinkens of Bonn.
On November 21, 1897, Gul assisted Eduard Herzog of the Swiss Christian Catholic Church and Theodor Weber of the Old Catholic Church of Germany with the consecration of Antonius Stanislas Kozłowski, who was elected by a number of Polish congregations in Chicago that were dissatisfied with the control exercised over their church properties by mostly-Irish Roman Catholic bishops. These churches would later organize into the Polish National Catholic Church.
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