Petrus Codde (Amsterdam, 27 November 1648 - Utrecht, 18 December 1710) was apostolic vicar of the Holland Mission (in the Roman Catholic tradition) from 1688 to 1702 and Archbishop of Utrecht (in the Old Catholic tradition) from 1695 to 1705/1710 .
Petrus Codde studied in Leuven, taught by the Oratorians, and was ordained priest in 1672. In 1688 he was named vicar apostolic, 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, in 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, thanks to the intervention of Giovanni Battista Bussi). 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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| Preceded by Johannes van Neercassel |
Vicar Apostolic to the Dutch Mission 1688-1702 |
Succeeded by Theodorus de Kock |