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Ordination to the priesthood is an ontological change. Once one is ordained a priest, they remain a priest throughout eternity. So, no one can "rejoin" it, it is a matter of a state of being. If you are talking about a priest that has applied for laicization and been accepted (he has been reduced to the lay state), he still remains a priest but is forbidden to present himself as such and may not wear clerical garb. Once a priest has been laicized there is no chance of him returning to active ministry according to the current law of the Church.

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