Scranton to get first married Catholic priest

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Deacon Eric Bergman will become one of the rarest of Roman Catholic priests today — a married one.

The former rector of Good Shepherd Episcopal Church will be ordained for the second time at St. Clare Roman Catholic Church today, nearly 10 years after his ordination in the Church of England.

After he takes his vows, he will be the first married priest in the history of the Diocese of Scranton, joining the 100 or so other married Roman Catholic priests in the United States.

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Barely news anymore. For years Rome has allowed clergy converts to be ordained. Clerical celibacy is a discipline, a practical restriction and a symbolic image, not a doctrine.

Betcha the priest doesn’t consider this his “second” ordination! Presumably he converted because he recognized the invalidity of his “first” one.
 
i agree this is old news…even Franciscan had a married priest while i was there:)
 
I met my first married priest when we moved to CA. He was an Episcopalian priest prior to his conversion. And lemme tell ya, he was an AWESOME priest! And his wife was an absolute sweetheart! 😃 😃

But it’s always neat to have another priest, ordained while married or not, it’s another priest!!! 👍
 
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Deacon Eric Bergman will become one of the rarest of Roman Catholic priests today — a married one.

The former rector of Good Shepherd Episcopal Church will be ordained for the second time at St. Clare Roman Catholic Church today, nearly 10 years after his ordination in the Church of England.

After he takes his vows, he will be the first married priest in the history of the Diocese of Scranton, joining the 100 or so other married Roman Catholic priests in the United States.

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That’s great. Wonder how the parish will accept him?
 
We have a married priest in our diocese. He converted from the Episcopalian church. He has been in our diocese for about 5 years.
 
I know this a really old dead thread, but for the record, it is better to say that someone is “a married man who is a priest” not “a married priest.” Brevity is the enemy of clarity. The second is ambiguous and suggests that priests may get married, this can never ever happen. On the other hand, married men can become ordained. Most often to the deaconate in the Latin right, extraordinarily to the priesthood. Once an ordination takes place, there can never follow a marriage. Once a deacon or priest who was married before ordination is widowed, he can not remarry.

BTW, he is at St. Claire’s in Scranton, and I think that he does mass in the Anglican rite as well.

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R.
 
I used to go to a Byzantine mission parish who had a married priest. He was one of the best priests I knew.
 
And I know plenty of Eastern Orthodox priests, who are married as well. I have no problem with them either.
 
I live near here. Entire parishes of Episcopals are converting to Catholicism after what happen with the Episcopal church.
 
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