1823
Formulary of Utrecht
In a meeting at the Hague in the Autumn of 1823, Archbishop
Willibrord van Os of Utrecht; John Bon, Bishop of Haarlem: and
Gisbert de Jong, Bishop of Deventer proclaimed to Nazalli, titular Archbishop of
Cyprus and papal nuncio:
12. The bishops replied that they would, with the greatest
willingness, “accept, without any exception whatever, all the Articles of the
holy Catholic faith, would neither hold nor teach, then or afterwards, any other
opinions than those that had been decreed, determined, and published by our
mother, the holy Church, conformably to Holy Scripture, tradition, the acts of
Oecumenical Councils, and those of the Council of Trent; as also that they
reject and condemn everything opposed to them — especially all heresies,
without any one exception — that the Church has rejected and condemned; that
they also detest at the same time every schism which might separate them from
the communion of the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman Church, and of its visible
head upon earth; that they never made common cause with those that had broken
the bond of unity; that in particular they reject and condemn the Five
Propositions condemned by the Holy See, and which are stated to be found in the
book of Jansenius called Augustinus; that they promise as well for the
future as for the present, and in all things, to his Holiness the actual Pope
Leo XII., and to his successors, fidelity, obedience, and submission, according
to the Canons of the Church; and also to accept respectfully, to teach and to
maintain, conformably with the same Canons, the decrees and constitutions of the
Apostolic See.”
Source:
Rev. J.M. Neale, M.A., A History of the So-Called Jansenist Church of
Holland; with a Sketch of Its Earlier Annals, And some Account of the Brothers
of the Common Life (Oxford: John Henry and James Parker, 1858), Chapter XVII.
