CHRISTIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, the name assumed by a religious organization founded at Zion City (q.v.) near Chicago, in 1896, by John Alexander Dowie (q.v.). Its members added to the usual tenets of Christianity a special belief in faith-healing, and laid much stress on united consecra tion services and the threefold immersion of believers. To assist Dowie, assistant overseers were appointed, and the operations of the community included religious, educational and commercial departments. After 1903 considerable dissension arose among Dowie's followers: he was deposed in 1906; and after his death in 1907 his assistant Wilbur Glenn Voliva became general overseer of the organization.
See art. "Enthusiasts (religious)," by G. H. Gray and W. T. Whitley in Hastings, Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, vol. v. p. 320; and K. Harlan, John Alexander Dowie and the Christian Catholic Church, Evansville, Wisconsin, 5906.