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To: Kolokotronis

Not all of your Priests are married and your Bishops are selected exclusively from the ranks of celibate Priests.


36 posted on 11/19/2006 10:26:31 AM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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To: A.A. Cunningham

"Not all of your Priests are married and your Bishops are selected exclusively from the ranks of celibate Priests."

I know that, AAC. Did you think I didn't? The overwhelming numbe of our priests are married. The celibates are all monastics, though not all monastics, indeed only a small percentage of them, are priests. Virtually all bishops were at one point monastics, but on occassion we do have a bishop who is a widower.


38 posted on 11/19/2006 10:39:20 AM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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