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(Pieer van der Codde), a Dutch theologian of the order of the Oratory, was born at Amsterdam in 1648. In 1683 he was made pastor at Utrecht, and in 1688 titular archbishop of Sebaste, and apostolic vicar of the united provinces. Being accused of holding the principles of Jansenism, he went to Rome in 1700, in order to justify himself, but in 1704 his doctrine was condemned by a decree of the Inquisition, and he was deprived of the spiritual administration of the Catholics of Holland. He died at Utrecht. December 18, 1710, leaving Declarationes super Pluribus Interrogationibus, etc. (Rome, 1701). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Genirale, s.v.; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten, Lexikon, s.v.