Priests take their studies first at a University for four years then a Seminary for another four years, then they have an internship of a few months doing basic counseling and are sometimes sent to a parish to "job shadow" the Pastor their. Then he is ordained a Deacon; now he can work in a parish Baptizing, Marrying, and reading the Gospel during Mass. He does this for about 6 to 9 months then he is ordained a Priest where he does an internship as a Priest at a parish until the Bishop decides that he is to be given his own parish, or if it would be better if he just stayed where he is.
Seminary.
The Russian Orthodox Church does not ordain priests.
In the Catholic Church, priests are celibate, therefore this question does not apply to the Catholic Church.
Priests will be priests: belong to the clergy, ministers of a Christian Church.
By their fathers, head priests and scholars.
Orthodox priests could marry, Catholic priests could not.
The apostles were the first priests and bishops of the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church has never had female priests nor bishops, and will never have them.
Priests, as they do today, would have lived in a separate dwelling called a rectory, not in the church.
In the Roman Catholic Church, the male priest represents God.Female priests are permitted in the Episcopal Church.
No there are no female priests in the Roman Catholic Church. A priest represents Jesus on the Alter and a woman cannot do that. Religious women can become nuns but not priests.
priests help us celebrate the 7 sacraments and are part of the hierarchy or basic structure of the Church