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To: Ransomed; Hostage

“Do you mean that Orthodox priests can marry after they are ordained or that married men can become Orthodox priests (that’s the way it is in some of the Catholic rites I think)? Can Orthodox priests re-marry if they are widowed?”

No marriage at all under any circumstances is allowed after ordination.

Someone earlier remarked that monastics can never marry. That’s not correct. Married men and women can enter a monastery, separately of course, and become monastics but it means the end of the marriage as a practical matter. It is sometimes seen among old married people in Orthodox countries.


35 posted on 08/07/2009 11:26:09 AM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Kolokotronis; Ransomed

Thank you.

To answer Ransomed’s question about a priest widower remarrying. I think it follows that remarriage is not allowed.


37 posted on 08/07/2009 11:30:21 AM PDT by Hostage
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