Reformed Catholic Church at home in North Toledo
Published: Saturday, 12/6/2014 - Updated: 7 hours ago
BY TK BARGER
BLADE RELIGION EDITOR
The Reformed Catholic Church’s (RCC) global headquarters in North Toledo is far removed from the Vatican in many ways.
A building that once was the home of Community Church of God, at the corner of Doyle Street and Ketcham Avenue, is now the Holy Cross Reformed Catholic Church, where the RCC is centered. That is also where Metropolitan Archbishop Marc Ignatius Stephen Heckman, who uses the first name Marcis, lives.
The RCC, incorporated in 2000, is a “fifth pillar” of Catholicism, Archbishop Heckman said. “We consider ourselves different because we’re made up of the Old Catholic movement [centered in Utrecht, Netherlands], the independent Catholic movement, the Orthodox movement, even the Roman movement, so we’re separate in that aspect.”
For the past eight months, Archbishop Jose Israel de la Trinidad also was there after he moved from Puerto Rico, but he recently established a new Toledo residence for his religious order, the Reformed Carmelites. Archbishop Heckman is a Reformed Jesuit; there are RCC versions of several religious orders with Roman Catholic traditions.
http://www.toledoblade.com/Religion/2014/12/06/Centered-in-Glass-City.html
http://www.reformedcatholicchurch.org/about_us.htm