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Since the fourth century, it has been a discipline of the Church that ordained men could not be married after ordination, though they could be ordained if already married. This applied to all three orders (bishops, presbyters, deacons).

While some orders have since been restricted to celibates (bishops in the East, presbyters and bishops in the West), the idea remains that an ordained minsiter may be married only once.

This is rooted in the scriptural requirements for the offices of bishop and deacon (1 Timothy 3; Titus 1), which says they must be married only once.

Exceptions are sometimes made for ministers with young children, whose wife has died.

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