[machenation]

Orthodox Christian priests have to be married. A monk can only serve the people under unusual conditions. The priest are rented from the bishop and the people have to build their own church and a place for the priest and his wife and kids. Since they have both married and non-married clergy they know the way Satan causes men and women to sin with their bodies. My point is the over population crowd don’t have any faith that God cares for his own. And the commies said the churches belonged to the state and the priests belonged in the ground.

[Mount Athos]

They don’t have to be married, there are both married and celebate priests. The bishops are all celibate

[Freelance Warrior]

In the Russian Church clergy cannot marry, but married men may be ordained to deacon or priest. The Roman Catholics don't ordain married people. That's the accurately defined difference.

The outcomes are: 1) there are monk priests, married priests and celibate (but not monk priests). The celibates and monks are supposed to serve in remote areas, in the military, prisons and such. 2) widowed priests or deacons cannot marry again. Most parish priests are married.

The bishops, as Mount Athos has already said, are always monks.