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[6] According to the Annuario Pontificio 2016, as of December 31, 2014, there were 415,792 Catholic priests worldwide, including both diocesan priests and priests in the religious orders. [7] A priest of the regular clergy is commonly addressed with the title "Father" (contracted to Fr, in the Catholic and some other Christian churches). [8]
A Bulgarian Catholic priest, Capuchin friar and Vicar Apostolic of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sofia and Plovdiv. Vladimir Sergeyvich Pecherin: 27 June 1807 – 28 April 1885 Russian nihilist, Romantic poet, and Classicist, who later became a Roman Catholic priest in 19th-century Ireland. Walter Joseph Ciszek: November 4, 1904 – December 8 ...
This is a list of notable former Catholic priests. Both religious and diocesan priests, and bishops, are included. Most persons on this list can fit into one of the following categories: Left the priesthood but remained Catholic (voluntary laicization) Left the priesthood and the Catholic Church altogether (voluntary laicization)
Frans Alfons Janssens (1865–1924) – Catholic priest and the discoverer of crossing-over of genes during meiosis, which he called 'chiasmatypie' François Jacquier (1711–1788) – Franciscan mathematician and physicist; at his death he was connected with nearly all the great scientific and literary societies of Europe
Fr. George Elder, [173] Educator and an editor of "Catholic Advocate" of Louisville, Kentucky. Msgr. John Tracy Ellis, [174] [175] Academic who criticized the standards of 1950s Catholic education and was a past president of the American Catholic Historical Association. Msgr. Joseph Clifford Fenton, [176] Theologian.
"for his unique role in one of the poorest areas of Latin-America as a leader of the progressive minority of the Catholic Church and leading spokesman for non-violent methods to further social change where has played an important international role by contributing to a greater understanding in industrialized countries of the social reality in ...
Studies by some Catholic scholars, such as the Ukrainian Roman Cholij [31] and Christian Cochini, [32] have argued for the theory that, in early Christian practice, married men who became priests—they were often older men, "elders"—were expected to live in complete continence, refraining permanently from sexual relations with their wives.
Among the Eastern particular Churches, the Ethiopic Catholic Church ordains only celibate clergy, while also having married priests who were ordained in the Orthodox Church, while other Eastern Catholic Churches, which do ordain married men, do not have married priests in certain countries. The Western or Latin Church does sometimes, though ...