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To: Steelfish

Was he married like Peter was?


2 posted on 03/01/2015 2:32:53 PM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: demshateGod

Was there some problem with being married? Remember that the qualification of being a bishop included having a wife.


4 posted on 03/01/2015 5:00:45 PM PST by JAKraig (Surely my religion is at least as good as yours)
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To: demshateGod

Peter left his wife and followed Christ. This is not about the “personal”life of Peter or the Pope. It is about the ONE true Church. The rest of course in Hillaire Belloc famous words, a fourteen centuries later, how Protestantism “spawned a cluster of heresies” unlike any other before that time.


5 posted on 03/01/2015 5:35:12 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: demshateGod

There’s no evidence that he was married. The next “married Pope” was St Hormisdas (died AD 523), but he was a widower when elected. He was also the only Pope to have been the father of a Pope.


10 posted on 03/01/2015 7:39:03 PM PST by Campion
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