There is only one Catholic Church, and all ordained priests were members of it before the revolution.
The clergy of the Catholic Church consists of the Bishops, the priests, and the deacons: all ordained clergy.
Holy Orders is the sacrament through which a man is ordained as a deacon, priest, or bishop by the laying on of hands and prayer. This sacrament conveys a special grace and power to serve the Church and administer the other sacraments. It is one of the seven sacraments recognized by the Roman Catholic Church.
These are the ordained church leaders in the protestant Churches. In the Methodist Church, for example, ordained clergy are called ministers, whilst in the Baptist Church they tend to be called pastors. In the Anglican Church, however, the ordained leaders are names the same as the Roman Catholic Church - deacons, priests and bishops.
Catholic priests have always had the authority to perform marriages but I am assuming they are licensed to perform marriages when they are ordained. Marriage, or matrimony, is one of the Seven Sacraments of the Church. Also, Catholic priests do not perform marriages but they actually witness them.
The French revolution was extremely hostile to the Catholic Church. They guillotined priests, nuns, and sisters by the hundreds, desecrated Churches, and destroyed priceless relics.
No, because the Catholic church has yet to allow women to be ordained as priests (they are only allowed to become nuns), and the Pope is selected from the world's cardinals--who were once priests.
The ordained ministries in the Catholic Church are deacons, priests and bishops. There are also other extraordinary ministers but they are not ordained. Am example would be a Eucharistic minister.
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It depends upon the level of his ordination.If he is a laychaplain - i.e. if he is not ordained - then yes, he can marry.If he has been ordained a deacon in the Catholic Church, then again, he can marry.But if the chaplain is an ordained priest (or bishop), then in the Roman Catholic Church they are not allowed to marry and take a vow of celibacy (not having sex) at their ordination.There has been a lot of controversy over this man-made rule recently especially as a very small percentage of priests in the Anglican Church (who ARE allowed to marry) have defected to the Catholic Church because they disagreed with women in the Anglican Church being allowed to be ordained. This has caused quite a stir and many feel the ban on marriage of priests in the Roman Catholic Church as outdated and wrong and are looking to the time when married priests and bishops (of both sexes) will be allowed into the Catholic Church.
There can be no such person as a "wife of the Pope". The Pope must be a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. Cardinals are, for the most part Bishops (with a few priests). All priests and bishops of the Catholic church take a vow of celibacy when they are first ordained and cannot ever marry. Even in the Eastern Rites which allow married priests, the Bishops are only chosen from the celibate priests.
In the Catholic Church, priests are celibate, therefore this question does not apply to the Catholic Church.
Yes as long as you were legally married. And if you were congratz!!! ---- If either party of the couples is a Catholic, then for the Catholic Church to officially recognize the marriage, the couple must have been married in the Catholic Church.