Talk:Clerical marriage

message: Why does "Nicolaitism" link here? I read somewhere else that Nicolaitism is an obscure doctrine denounced in the Revelations section of the Bible--it didn't say anything about clerical marriage. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 204.95.23.122 (talk • contribs).
Nicolaitism would be very helpful to be mentioned here, and its related issue of German feudalism concerning land ownership which forced the western church into clerical celibacy in the first place. Also helpful would be a mention of the canons of Nicea which allow clergy to be married, as well as other ancient canons which require bishops to be celibate. 69.74.234.178 15:15, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: What the?

message: I have seen the term clerogamy used in a disparaging way by critics of clerical marriage. (Cf WP-FR) It is a strange term, somewhat akin to monogamy or polygamy, but is has nevertheless been used by opponents of clerical marriage within the Latin Church in the past, and especialy during the medieval era. ADM (talk) 11:31, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Clerogamy

message: I'm not sure it is really notable on the page, but there have been some unusual cases of clerical marriages that are also gay marriages, such as this one in an Anglican church ceremony.  ADM (talk) 21:07, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Clerical gay marriage

message: Let's clarify the distinction between men who are already ordained priests, getting married - as opposed to married men becoming priests. That is, let's distinguish between the state of marriage (i.e., leading a married life) and the act of getting married (i.e., wedding).
Also, does this apply to women, or is it "understood" that the issue only affects male priests because it's common knowledge that the churches in question don't ordain women? As for clerical gay marriage, I'm not sure which (major?) churches have gay clergy; I thought the issue related only to those churches which prefer clergy to be:
#ordained
#celibate
#men
Anyone want to help with this? --Uncle Ed (talk) 13:58, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Better definition

message: Churches such as the Eastern Orthodox and the Oriental Orthodox exclude this practice for their priests, while accepting already married men for ordination to priesthood.
I don't know much about the Oriental Orthodox, but the Eastern Orthodox (at least the Romanian one, but I think it goes for others too) has two kinds of priests: 
* married clergy - 'clerul căsătorit' ('clerul secular', sau 'de mir'), that cannot become (the process is called "hirotonisire") a priest unless he is married before (and it's the case for most of the priests) and 
monastery clergy - 'clerul monahal', that can only be a priest if he never gets married (this is available for priests in monasteries and for the clerical upper hierarchy positions)http://www.crestinortodox.ro/carti-ortodoxe/noul-statut-bor/numirea-personalului-bisericesc-parohii-81292.html(Romanian) So most of the (Romanian) Orthodox priests are married except for those in monasteries and some that have certain positions such as patriarch, bishop. Călușaru' (talk) 20:51, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eastern Orthodox 

message: The picture seen at the top of the page is misleading, as it features a cleric from a church which does not permit clerical marriage. 8bitW (talk) 23:56, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  First picture 

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