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The Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches, in general, rule out ordination of married men to the episcopate, and marriage after priestly ordination. Throughout the Catholic Church, East as well as West, a priest may not marry. In the Eastern Catholic Churches, a married priest is one who married before being ordained.
In some Christian churches, such as the western and some eastern sections of the Catholic Church, priests and bishops must as a rule be unmarried men. In others, such as the Eastern Orthodox Church, the churches of Oriental Orthodoxy and some of the Eastern Catholic Churches, married men may be ordained as deacons or priests, but may not remarry if their wife dies, and celibacy is required ...
Most rural priests were married and many urban clergy and bishops had wives and children." [8] 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 forbidden. [9] [10]
Why can’t you be devoted to God and love someone at the same time? I don’t understand that.” He continued, “Priests used to be married many years ago but the Catholic church stopped that.”
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The Catholic church must look into the possibility of allowing married men to become ordained priests, according to a new interview with Pope Francis. Pope Francis: Catholic church should study ...
In the Latin Rite now, only a dispensation from the Vatican can allow clergy within the Latin Rite to marry, and such occasions are rare. [citation needed] The reintroduction of a permanent diaconate means that married men may become deacons in the Western rite but not become priests.
Technically, bishops are a priestly order as well; however, in layman's terms priest refers only to presbyters and pastors (parish priests). The church's doctrine also sometimes refers to all baptised members as the "common priesthood", [1] [2] which can be confused with the ministerial priesthood of the consecrated clergy.