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To: Kolokotronis

“+John Chrysostomos said: “The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.”

I take it John was never married?

3,493 posted on 03/05/2008 1:24:51 PM PST by blue-duncan

To: blue-duncan

“I take it John was never married?”

Not to my knowledge....

3,497 posted on 03/05/2008 3:05:52 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)

To: blue-duncan

I take it John [Chrysostomos] was never married?

Eastern bishops are usually drawn from the monastic ranks. Eastern bishops cannot be married (priests anddeaocns can, before theor ordination).

3,504 posted on 03/05/2008 6:10:18 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)

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