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In December 2019, German bishop Heinrich Timmerevers answered also, there can be married priests in Catholic Church. [96] In November 2019, the Amazonassynode in Rome voted by 128 to 41 votes in favour for married priests in Latin America. [97]
Roman Catholic priests and deacons who have been married. (See Clerical Celibacy (Catholic Church)) ... Pages in category "Married Roman Catholic clergy"
In general, Eastern Catholic Churches have always allowed ordination of married men as priests and deacons. Within the lands of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the second largest Eastern Catholic Church, priests' children often became priests and married within their social group, establishing a tightly knit hereditary caste. [14]
The Catholic church must look into the possibility of allowing married men to become ordained priests, according to a new interview with Pope Francis.
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 ...
Even a married priest or deacon whose wife dies may not then marry again. The Catholic Church and the ancient Christian Churches see priestly ordination as a sacrament dedicating the ordinand to a permanent relationship of service, and, like Baptism and Confirmation, having an ontological effect on him. It is for this reason that a person may ...
The teaching of the Catholic Church is that a married couple commits themselves totally to one another until death. [115] The vows they make to each other in the wedding rite are a commitment "til death do us part". [116] After the death of one, the other is free to marry again or to remain single. Some choose to become priests or religious.
A Catholic priest and Maryknoll Missioner killed in action while serving as a Navy chaplain with a Marine Corps infantry unit during the Vietnam War. Vinkenti Peev: 11 November 1873 - March 2, 1941 A Bulgarian Catholic priest, Capuchin friar and Vicar Apostolic of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sofia and Plovdiv. Vladimir Sergeyvich Pecherin