Are Byzantine Catholic Priests Allowed to Marry?
As in the Orthodox Churches, Married Men May Become Priests but Men Who Are Already Priests Cannot Marry, Even If They Become Widowed. Bishops Must Be...
As in the Orthodox churches, married men may become priests but men who are already priests cannot marry, even if they become widowed. Bishops must be celibate.
Can Byzantine Catholic priests get married?
There have been no changes since then in the discipline of the Eastern Orthodox Church, which for bishops, priests, deacons, and subdeacons excludes marriage after ordination, but allows, except for periods before celebrating the Divine Liturgy, conjugal relations by priests and deacons married before ordination, and ...
Which Catholic priests can marry?
Married priests are already allowed in Eastern Catholic Churches loyal to the pope, and Anglican priests who convert to Catholicism can remain married after ordination.