[Mrs. Don-o]

Actually, Peter was either a married man or a widower at the time he became an Apostle. Not t'other way around. He did not becdome an Apostle and then get married.

Matrimony ---> then ---> Holy Orders (priest): yes (sometimes)

Holy Orders (priest) ---> then ---> Matrimony: no (never)

In the same way, in the Catholic Churh there are married men who have become priests (usually in one of the non-Latin Churches, or possibly priest-converts from Anglicanism) --- but nobody who is a priest, first, can THEN get married and continue to serve as a priest.

It has always been in this way, in the Catholic and Orthodox churches, going back to the time of the Apostles.

[trisham]

Well said, Mrs. D.