Who started priest can't marry?

Answer 1

I do not know it makes no sense because in the book of Genisis God had told Adam be fruitful and multiply u cant multiply if u cant have sexual relationships and priest cant marry do date after they are ordaned

Answer 2

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Catholic AnswerIt would appear that this has been the practice from the first beginning (i.e. the first century), although we do not have explicit testimony, in writing, of this law until the second century. Like so many other things in the early Church though, they were often not discussed and written down until someone objected to them. Throughout the history of the Church we have Councils and Popes affirming doctrines that have been there from the beginning but were not questioned until much later, and they had to make a explicit "law" to clarify things. Thus the Apostolic Constitutions in the second century write "if a Priest or Deacon is not already married, he can never contract marriage. In 314 the Council of Neo-Caesaria had also said, "If a Priest marries let him be degraded." In 385 A.D., Pope Siricius said, "All we Priests are obliged by an inviolable law dating from our ordination to be continent and chaste, and thus offer the sacrifice of our bodies to God." This same Pope wrote also, "I have heard that Priest of Christ has married, defending his action by saying that the Priest of the Old Law married. But the Church, the Spouse of Christ, has always loved chastity. Wherefore any Priest who claims a privilege from the Old Law which is unlawful in the New must know that he is deprived of by the authority of the Apostolic See of the ecclesiastical honor he has so misused, nor can he celebrate the divine mysteries." Pope Siricius was not beginning a new law in the Church, but blaming an individual for not observing a law that had long been in existence. extracted from Radio Replies, by Fathers Rumble and Carty, 1942