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Serbian Orthodox archpriest Vukajlo Božović was a guerilla leader in the Kosovo Vilayet.. Throughout history, armed priests or soldier priests have been recorded. Distinguished from military chaplains, who are non-combatants that provided spiritual guidance to service personnel and associated civilians, these priests took up arms and fought in conflicts as combatants.
The Military Rabbinate is a unit in the Israel Defense Forces that provides religious services for military personnel, Jewish and non-Jewish, and makes decisions on issues of religion and military affairs. The Military Rabbinate is headed by the Chief Military Rabbi, who carries the rank of a Brigadier General.
The Roman Catholic Church called for the retention of the policy, but had no plans to withdraw its priests from serving as military chaplains. [35] Sixty-five retired chaplains signed a letter opposing repeal, stating that repeal would make it impossible for chaplains whose faith teaches that same-sex behavior is immoral to minister to military ...
While the Archdiocese of the Military Services is a Latin Church jurisdiction, clergy from the Eastern Catholic Churches may receive endorsement by the archdiocese. However, the Eastern Catholic priests must maintain bi-ritual faculties and be able to celebrate the sacraments in the ordinary form of the Roman Rite. [3]
Preacher's kid is a term to refer to a child of a preacher, pastor, deacon, vicar, lay leader, priest, minister or other similar church leader. Although the phrase can be used in a purely descriptive way, it may also be used as a stereotype .
In large part, the notion of military monasticism was popularised because of the advocacy of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, who believed that existing Christian methods of serving the Church's ends in the war were inadequate and that a group of dedicated warrior monks, who achieved spiritual merit and served God through waging war, was necessary.
Because of the huge responsibility that is the burden of the Order of Bishops (that of financial administration), it is also, by necessity, generally not viewed as being lesser to the Quorum of High Priests. In 2008 the Church started appointing field bishops. This is not a new priesthood office, simply a new position being filled by some bishops.
Some 300 military priests served in World War II. [6] During the conflict, the church legitimated and lent spiritual support to the Ion Antonescu regime’s message that Romania was fighting a crusade against Bolshevism. The diocese, through its military missionary activities in Transnistria Governorate, formed part of this effort. [8]