Clerical marriage
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Clerical marriage is the practice of allowing Christian clergy to marry. This practice is distinct from allowing married persons to become clergy. Clerical marriage is admitted among Protestants, incl
Married Eastern Orthodox priest from Jerusalem with his family (three generations), c. 1893
Marriage reform: cleric Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora in 1525.
One of the final drafts of the Six articles (1539), reaffirming clerical celibacy in England
Married Romanian Eastern Catholic priest with his family
The Eastern Catholic clergy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church formed a tight-knit hereditary social caste that dominated Ukrainian society in Western Ukraine, from the late eighteenth until the m
Clerical marriage
…become clergy. Within the lands of the Eastern Christendom, priests' children often became priests and marry within their social group, establishing a tightly knit hereditary caste among some Eastern Christian communities. The Latin Catholic Church as a rule requires clerical celibacy for the priesthood since the Gregorian Reform…
St. George's Cathedral, Lviv: The cathedral also holds a predominant position in Ukrainian religious and cultural terms.
Traditional wooden Ukrainian Catholic Church in Kolochava
East Catholic regions in Europe (1901) including the Romanian Greek Catholic Church
Kost Levytsky, a priest's son, would become the major political figure in western Ukraine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries