The Roman Catholic Church is the world's largest Christian Church, and its largest religious grouping. There are an estimated 7 Million baptised Catholics in Kenya, approximately 23% of the population.
Willibrord was consecrated to the Episcopacy by Pope Sergius I in 696 at Rome.
During the Reformation the Roman CatholicChurch in the Netherlands remained under attack and the dioceses north of the Rhine and Waal eventually were dissolved and suspended by the Holy See.
A number of western orthodox churches such as the African Orthodox Church and the Orthodox CatholicChurch of America are descended from Bishop Vilatte and claim him as a kind of founder by virtue of his ordinations and consecrations.