Could Medieval Bishops Marry?

Most rural priests were married and many urban clergy and bishops had wives and children." Then at the Second Lateran Council of 1139 the Roman Church declared that Holy Orders were not merely a prohibitive but a diriment canonical impediment to marriage, therefore making a marriage by priests invalid and not merely ...

Can bishops marry?

Bishops must be unmarried men or widowers; a married man cannot become a bishop. ... In most Orthodox traditions and in some Eastern Catholic Churches men who are already married may be ordained priests, but priests may not marry after ordination.

In what year were priests forbidden to marry?

The universal requirement to celibacy was imposed upon the clergy with force in 1123 and again in 1139.