[Apologetics] Married bishops?

[Stephen Korsman]

Hi

Excerpt from "Vatican signals there will be no enclave for former Anglican clergy in Rome",
http://geoconger.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/vatican-signals-there-will-be-no-enclave-for-former-anglican-clergy-in-rome-cen-121908-p-5/

While the Vatican has carved out an exception to its clerical celibacy rule for these former Anglican now Roman Catholic priests, it has yet to permit married ex-Anglican Roman Catholic bishops. Married ex-Anglican bishops functioning as Roman Catholic bishops would not be unprecedented, however. In December 1959, Pope John XXIII received a married ex-Anglican priest consecrated as a bishop of the schismatic Igreja Católica Apostólica Brasileira into the Roman Catholic Church.

Married with seven children, Bishop Salomão Barbosa Ferraz was not re-ordained upon his reception in the Catholic Church and upon being named Titular Bishop of Eleutherna on May 10, 1963 was not re-consecrated. Active at the Second Vatican Council, Bishop Ferraz appears to have been the only modern day married Roman Catholic bishop.

God bless,
Stephen
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