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Can Anglican Priests continue to worship at the church where they were the incumbent after their retirement?
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What are the English clergy?
Anglican priests are called vicars.
Could priests marry when Elizabeth was Queen?
Then as now Catholic Priests could not marry; but Anglican Priests who were not members of religious orders were allowed to get married.
What has the author Francis Woodlock written?
Francis Woodlock has written: 'Are Anglican ministers Catholic priests?' -- subject(s): Anglican orders
Where do Anglican priests live and what title is given to the regional leader?
Anglican priests usually live in their own homes or, if the parish they serve has a parsonage, the priest and his family may choose to live there. The great majority of Anglican priests are married and live with their families. There are Anglican monasteries; however, the residents of a monastery are referred to as monks. A region of Anglican parishes is known as a Diocese and the head of a Diocese is called a Bishop. The head Bishop over all of the Anglican Bishops in a given country is called the Presiding Bishop and the head of all Anglicans, worldwide, is the Archbishop of Cantebury.
What percentage of Anglican priests are women?
Approximately 30% of Anglican priests worldwide are women.
Describe one important difference between Roman Catholic and Anglican priests?
Easy, Catholic clergy are bishops, priests, and deacons who have been ordained into the sacrificial priesthood of Christ through the Apostolic succession, and thus carry Our Blessed Lord's mandate to minister to His people. Anglican clergy are protestants who lost apostolic succession and do not have a proper sacrificial priesthood. Please see Apostolicae Curae issued by Pope Leo XIII in 1896 on the validly of Anglican Orders:http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Leo13/l13curae.htm
Who conducts the ceremony in Anglican church?
In a parish church it would be a vicar which is the ordinary title given to certain parish priests.
Why can the Anglican priests marry and the Catholic is celibate?
Roman Catholic AnswerBecause Anglicans are protestant and Catholics have attempted to follow Our Blessed Lord.
Did Catholic priests marry at any other time other than the 1st century?
Very much so. In fact marriage was common among priests way into the 11th and 12th centuries, the rule about celibacy in the priesthood being a relatively recent custom in the Roman Catholic Church. Also, there are many married Roman Catholic priests and deacons even today. Men ordained as deacons are free to marry with no restriction. However, priests are not. Nevertheless, there are some Anglican priests who have moved to Rome because of their disagreeing with the ordination of women in the Anglican church. many of these priests are married as there is no restriction on marriage for deacons priests or bishops within the Anglican Church. So many former Anglicans are now bona fide Catholic priests working and ministering in the Catholic Church, but are married. This has caused quite a bit of controversy among Catholic clergy who have given up normal family life for the priesthood and has, in many cases, opened up the whole question of celibacy in the priesthood and its enforcement for some and not for others.
Why are ministers converting from the Anglican church to Catholicism?
The Anglican Church tries to be a universal Church at the same time as it lacks the disciplined hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church. General decisions for the Anglican Communion as a whole are made by consensus or vote, with individual bishops having considerable latitude in implementing or opposing those decisions. Two decision that have been welcomed by some bishops but strenuously opposed by others, are the ordination of women as priests and the the ordination of homosexuals as priests. Some conservative ministers who feel they can not accept these decisions have chosen to leave the faith and become priests in the Roman Catholic Church.
Do presbitariuns have nuns?
No, There are female religious only in the Anglican or as we call it the Episcopal communion. There are female ministers or Priests and even some Bishops in this denomination now.
Why are priests not allow marry?
In most Christian churches, clergy are allowed to marry. Indeed in some churches there are priests married to each other (e.g. in the Church of England there are many husband and wife clergy families). This includes most Protestant churches and the Orthodox church, where parish priests can be married but monks, bishops and above remain celibate. The largest church with celibate priests is the Roman Catholic church. In this church, it is held that celibacy helps the priest to focus on God and service to the church. However, the issue of celibacy is not a matter of faith or theology, but a vow imposed on the majority of western-rite (Latin) Roman Catholic priests. The major reason for this requirement is to prevent a conflict between family life and service to a priest's parishioners. Contrary to widely held opinion, there are, and always have been, married priests in the Catholic church. Eastern-rite Catholic priests, such as the Maronites, and, more recently, already married Anglican priests who convert to Catholicism and wish to be Catholic priests, continue to serve in the priesthood. One condition of priesthood for married former-Anglican priests is that they may not serve in the role of principal parish priest, in order to conform with the principle of celibacy imposed on the majority of Roman Catholic priests. It is worth remembering that many of the early priests of the church, including the first pope (St Peter) were married.
