 The firm of Verbunt & Co. was disbanded in 1848 when a change in the constitution rendered it unnecessary.That same year, the congregation received approval from Rome.The See of Utrecht had been vacant for about three hundred years when, on the reestablishment of the Catholic hierarchy in the Netherlands in 1853, Bishop Johannes Zwijsen, of Gerra, was appointed archbishop of the reestablished Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht and Primate of the Netherlands.