What Priests Are Allowed to 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...
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.
Were Catholic priests allowed to marry?
The Church was a thousand years old before it definitively took a stand in favor of celibacy in the twelfth century at the Second Lateran Council held in 1139, when a rule was approved forbidding priests to marry. In 1563, the Council of Trent reaffirmed the tradition of celibacy.
Are English priest allowed to marry?
Churches of the Anglican Communion have no restrictions on the marriage of deacons, priests, bishops, or other ministers to a person of the opposite sex. ... Some Anglo-Catholic priestly orders require their members to remain celibate, as do monastic orders of all brothers and sisters.
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